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Visual Arts Commentary: Hugh Ferriss — Architectural Delineator of the Heroic Modern

May 19, 2018
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A visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects.

Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston

April 21, 2018
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Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.

Commentary: Once More, Back to the Little Shop of Horovitz

April 10, 2018
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The strategic silences in the Boston Globe’s piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.

Film Commentary: Cast in “Chappaquiddick” — An Actor’s Perspective

April 4, 2018
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Chappaquiddick may satisfy some for whom Ted Kennedy was overdue for a comeuppance.

Performance Art Review: A Powerful “Stain” on the Boston Common

March 29, 2018
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Those who stopped at the top of the Boston Common, at about 1 p.m., witnessed an extraordinary work of performance art.

Critical Condition: Why Be Negative? Don’t Ask “The New York Times”

March 26, 2018
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If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.

Classical Music Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018-19 Season Announcement

March 22, 2018
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The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.

Theater Commentary: “Skeleton Crew” — Not With the Union

March 18, 2018
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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.

Rethinking the Repertoire #20 – Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony no. 1

March 17, 2018
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Kalinnikov’s First Symphony is one of those neglected works well worth beating a drum for.

Rethinking the Repertoire #19 — Charles Ives’ Orchestral Set no. 2

March 16, 2018
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Charles Ives continues to stand, after 140-plus years, as the ultimate American Composer.

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