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Concert Review: The Super Trio Celebrates Brahms

February 24, 2018
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The members of this trio seem to have preternatural access to each other’s musical thoughts.

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Film Review: “Free Solo” — Mountain Masterpiece

February 24, 2018
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As Alex Honnold observes, if he solos El Cap, it’s like winning a gold medal in the Olympics. But there’s no second or third place. If he fails, he dies.

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Concert Review: The Verona Quartet Takes on Shostakovich, Haydn, and Brahms

February 24, 2018
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The Verona Quartet is certainly worth watching, above all for the intimate way in which they communicate with each other and with the audience.

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Theater Review: Regicide in the Chapel — Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Richard III”

February 23, 2018
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.

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Theater Review: “for colored girls …” — A Welcome Reprise

February 23, 2018
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Shange’s nervy mix of wordplay and in-your-face didacticism — of resilience in the face of hardship — is very much the empowering thing.

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Theater Review: “Lost Laughs” — The Rise and Fall of a Silent Star

February 22, 2018
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Lost Laughs is an absorbing examination of the dark side of American celebrity.

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Jazz CD Review: Owen Broder’s American Roots Project — Heritage

February 21, 2018
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I’ve never run across music like this and never had even a platonic notion of what such a hybrid would sound like.

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Music Feature: The New Funk of Ripe — Making Happiness a “Heavy Emotion”

February 20, 2018
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Here we are more than a year into the tumultuous Trump era, and we have not seen a revival of angry punk or righteous folk.

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Classical Music Concert: Handel and Haydn Society Does Bach Right

February 19, 2018
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It’s hard to sit through these six masterpieces and not feel, for the moment, that life is really good.

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Film Review: “The Shape of Water” — A Dissenting View

February 19, 2018
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Del Toro creates a visually intriguing world, but the story’s premise is too farfetched to work.

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