Commentary
Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.
Urban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall’s mostly concrete facade.
The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.
Those who care about the future of American arts and culture should financially support this magazine and other valiant efforts to articulate the significance of the arts.
An inspiring man as well as a brilliant musician, Garrison Fewell had the courage to turn away from the darkness and to embrace the light.
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
The great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
The Theodore Baird House is a special place; the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Massachusetts.

Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard
There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.
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