Commentary
Those who stopped at the top of the Boston Common, at about 1 p.m., witnessed an extraordinary work of performance art.
If the New York Times can’t make a reasonable case for the need for discrimination rather than salesmanship, we are in real trouble.
The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.
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.
Kalinnikov’s First Symphony is one of those neglected works well worth beating a drum for.
Charles Ives continues to stand, after 140-plus years, as the ultimate American Composer.
TV’s The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.
We have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.
The range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.

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