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Concert Review: Cantata Singers — Music That Bears Witness to Catastrophe

January 23, 2018
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Peter Child’s challenge was to match his orchestral and choral music to the harrowing nature of the text — and he worked this out well.

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Theater Review: “Road Show” — Sondheim’s Latest Gets Its Boston Premiere

January 23, 2018
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Tony Castellanos as Wilson Mizner, with cast of "Road Show."

Road Show is unlikely to top anyone’s list of Sondheim favorites, it’s an often entertaining take on a quintessentially American story.

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Film Review: “A Woman, a Part” — Leaving the Business

January 23, 2018
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Credit director Elisabeth Subrin for being resourceful in incorporating her cast’s real-life situations into her storytelling.

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Classical CD Reviews: Kamus Quartet’s “Homunculus” and Jeroen Van Veen plays Adams

January 22, 2018
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The nearly 10 year wait for the premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s string quartet Homunculus was worth it.

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Music Interview: Vancouver’s Dan Bejar, Leader of the band Destroyer

January 22, 2018
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“There’s not too many people wanting their money back, thinking that they’re at a Pig Destroyer show or Destroyer 666.”

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Book Review: “Surviving Jersey” — Chronicling Wild Times

January 22, 2018
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This superb volume is much more than a group of essays; it is a tale with a trajectory fashioned by a writer who is determined to be achingly honest.

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Theater Review: “Unveiled” — An Exploration in Understanding

January 22, 2018
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As a storyteller, Rohina Malik exudes warmth and humanity.

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Book Review: Lou Reed — A Welter of Contradictions

January 21, 2018
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Anthony DeCurtis wants to do justice to his subjects’ extensive catalogue, but the book begins to feel less like exegesis and more like Lou Reed 101.

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Classical CD Reviews: Hindemith Orchestral Works and Symphonic Psalms

January 21, 2018
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Conductor Marek Janowski’s Hindemith is all vigor and athleticism; Tenebrae’s Symphonic Psalms & Prayers is captivating.

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Film Review: “Thelma” — Surreal Adolescence

January 20, 2018
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Thelma learns that she can’t escape who she is — but she can control what she does.

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