Commentary

Visual Arts Commentary: The Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

August 5, 2020
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An appreciation of a footbridge that intertwines nature with our humanity.

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Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film

August 2, 2020
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It gradually became clear to me by the mid-’80s that Alan Parker films were, more than those of any other filmmaker, an integral part of my identity as a film lover.

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Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the Egg

July 28, 2020
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The final, ineluctable quality that Ornette Coleman brought to the table was that he had an individual “voice,” which is the sine qua non and preeminent ethos in jazz.

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Arts Remembrance: Old-Time Radio Announcer Frank Gallop — A Wonderful Set of Pipes

July 22, 2020
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Feisty, funny, frightening when necessary, Boston’s Frank Gallop classed-up the airwaves.

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Critical/Theater Commentary: Slapping Sleeping Media Outlets A “Woke”

July 15, 2020
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Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.

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Arts Commentary: Reviewing Music, Re-viewed

July 14, 2020
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Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.

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Performing Arts Series: Stories of Surviving COVID-19 — Non-Event

July 13, 2020
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What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?

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Arts Reconsideration: “Pinocchio” at 80

July 12, 2020
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Now that the real live boy is an old man, how’s he holding up in 2020?

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Visual Arts Commentary: “Placemaking” — Thoughts on the Virus and Our Current Public Environment

July 9, 2020
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Today, our perception of the environment has become narrowed, defensive: the outside world has become worrisome, dangerous, aspirational, and changing.

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Film Commentary: Fellini at 100 — How the Mighty Have Tumbled

July 7, 2020
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It seems evident that hardly anyone knows about the centenary of a moviemaker who, in earlier days, was universally revered, whose hallowed name was synonymous with art-house cinema.

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