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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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“Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4” is rich in what too many box sets skimp on: a wide-ranging spread of live recordings. In this case, they demonstrate how Mitchell’s songs evolved on stage as well as in the studio, documenting a genius at work.
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“Cookin’ at the Queens” is an invaluable addition to the legacy of guitarist Emily Remler.
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As usual, Elemental’s pressings are pristine and the packaging is artful and informative, with new photos.
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A staging of “The Thanksgiving Play” needs to be rooted in the dramatist’s demand that the script shock: it should traumatize the ancestors of the perpetrators.
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Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin wrote not only of romantic love – a topic deemed quite suitable to women writers – but also of lust, anger, abasement, and violence.
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Wow. Stewart Goodyear can play Prokofiev. The Czech Philharmonic and Tomás Netopil are compelling advocates, playing Dvořák with plenty of rhythmic zest and tonal warmth.
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The opera repertory is so much richer than what gets staged nowadays; many of the most exciting recordings that came my way are of somewhat or entirely forgotten operas from past eras.
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