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Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Read MoreThe Witch‘s brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..
Read MoreSunday afternoon’s hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.
Read MoreThis compact documentary presents a poignant picture of the intersection of segregation, enlightenment, and failure.
Read MoreThis exhibition at the MFA gives us as chance to walk about a delightful island in the wide sea of Picasso works.
Read MoreAn October 2016 opening that could fill some of the gaps created by the shuttering of Johnny D’s next month.
Read MoreRuth Lepson’s method in these poems is to encourage us listen as carefully as she does.
Read MoreThe big news was the well-deserved Grammy for best orchestral performance that the BSO and current music director Andris Nelsons won .
Read MoreThe BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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