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This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.
Despite Dark’s complicated structure, the characters are motivated by utterly realistic desires and emotions, which balance the show’s more abstract elements.
This world-premiere recording of the 1826 Paris version of Gaspare Spontini’s Olimpie makes a powerful case for a composer much admired in his own day.
The Rolling Stones were still up there, sounding vital, and that alone delivered satisfaction.
To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes.
A sense of promise remains a hallmark of the Montreal Jazz Festival — always end by looking forward.
“Porches are loosely defined. Our stages include stoops, yards, and driveways, as well as churches, community centers, affordable housing, and elderly housing.”
Saturday’s performance made up for a rain delay withthe longest single set since the band’s millennium-greeting Everglades marathon.
Opening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice.
The Montreal Jazz Festival is overwhelming in a way, but somehow genial, and finally inspiring.
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