Commentary
The Internet Archive’s struggles highlight the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations operating in a digital world dominated by commercial and geopolitical interests.
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The ascendancy of digital life is acknowledged as unshakable, but in these essays Sven Birkerts offers useful insights into how serious writers can carry on.
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Maggie Smith’s finest and most memorable roles drew on her genius for dramatizing the emotional complexity of outsiders.
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Benny Golson’s accomplishments were enormous and lasting.
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Music Worcester’s ambitious project, which will involve multiple Boston-area music groups, is slated to run the next eleven seasons. The goal will be to present every note the great man wrote. And a homage to the late Richard Dyer, the chief classical music critic of “The Boston Globe” for three decades.
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Joan Acocella is more than a critic. She is a thinker, writing at a time when thinkers are not valued much, when exegesis in places other than scholarly journals sometimes seems like a lost art.
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Considered the earliest integration of art and technology, sundials of various types have been around for 4000 years or so.
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Sergio Mendes, the man who ignited my own love affair with Brazilian music, has passed, at the age of 83, from complications of long Covid.
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Serious individuals of all stripes seeking candid yet pragmatic life, career, and financial guidance will find much to savor in this book.
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Classical Concert Commentary: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Takes On the Contemporary
It is only a month into the current season, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra has offered three pieces that have either been heard for the first time in Symphony Hall or given that more rare honor that evades most premieres — the deuxième performance.
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