Commentary
Kalinnikov’s First Symphony is one of those neglected works well worth beating a drum for.
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Charles Ives continues to stand, after 140-plus years, as the ultimate American Composer.
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TV’s The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.
Read MoreWe have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.
Read MoreThe range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.
Read MoreA line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can’t, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.
Read MoreDoes anyone really believe that there is no sexual harassment going on in Boston area theater companies today?
Read MoreThese articles dramatize, sadly, who was listened to and who wasn’t when sexual allegations were made against playwright Israel Horovitz in the early ’90s.
Read MoreCritics were once seen as the ‘canaries in the mineshaft’ — now newspapers and magazines are closing down the mines.
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Theater Commentary: “Skeleton Crew” — Not With the Union
To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.
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