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Author Interview: Joan Lancourt on Junior Programs — Pioneers of Theater for Young Audiences

April 14, 2025
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Junior Programs undertook “a visionary rethinking of the potential relationship between the performing arts and the lives of the nation’s children, with the specific artistic innovations emerging organically from that rethinking”.

Classical Music Album Review: Brahms & Schumann and Mozart & Bruch

April 14, 2025
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It is serendipitous that James Ehnes added Brahms’ two viola sonatas to his repertoire; Patrick Messina, Lise Berthaud, and Fabrizio Chiovetta’s new recording of Bruch’s “8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano” serves the piece admirably.

Television Review: “North of North” — Another Nice Canadian Sitcom, Eh?

April 14, 2025
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Given the current state of the world, we need more shows that not only entertain, but reflect the importance of community. And, if those programs accurately portray a close-knit group of people that has been misrepresented, all the better.

Coming Attractions: April 13 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 13, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

YA Book Review: “The Summer I Ate the Rich” — A Limited Menu

April 13, 2025
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Despite its title, this YA novel would be best described as an exercise in magic realist satire. Those looking for heaping helpings of the affluent will be disappointed.

Classical Music Album Reviews: “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” and Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Khachaturian

April 13, 2025
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A conspicuously inviting account of Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, and a welcome surprise: Aram Khachaturian actually wrote a pretty good piano concerto.

Album Review: Jason Isbell’s Ruminative “Foxes in the Snow”

April 12, 2025
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One thing, among others, that sets Jason Isbell apart from his country scene contemporaries is that he isn’t afraid to break the all-American code of manly stoicism.

Musician Interview: Rick Berlin Talks About His New Album “WTF!?,” His Upcoming Show, and Turning 80

April 12, 2025
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Rick Berlin is about to triple dip in the area of major achievements. April 19 marks the release of the Nickel & Dime Band album WTF!?, it is the date of their performance at Brighton Music Hall, and it also marks Berlin’s 80th birthday.

Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold

April 11, 2025
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In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mind.

Book Review: “Your Steps on the Stairs” — The Power of Waiting

April 11, 2025
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Initially, Antonio Muñoz Molina’s resonant novel seems to be the study of the moods and challenges of a man waiting for the only person who gives his life meaning.

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