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It was a winding, ultimately exhilarating trip that spanned 51 songs, culminating on Sunday in a virtuosic clinic that sealed the quartet’s near-telepathic interplay across prog-leaning classics.
Swanky Kitchen Band is single-handedly carrying on the venerable, but little known, Afro/Celtic/Caribbean tradition of fiddle-led dance bands in the Cayman Islands.
At the Pillow, the wonderful Social Tango Project brought the form back to its political and aesthetic origins: it is a dance designed to unify and uplift participants and audiences.
The Kansas City Symphony’s new Brahms album with outgoing music director Michael Stern showcases three of his works with keyboard in arrangements for orchestra; Lahav Shani’s cycle of Bruckner symphonies with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra continues with a sterling account of the Fifth.
The book’s final words offer hope for the future: “Despite the compromised nature of the trans film image of the past, there are many new horizons possible for the trans film image of the future, and that canvas, with all these images, will tell our story in cinema.”
Sir Simon Rattle’s latest traversal of Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is something special; Pianist Aurélien Pontier’s stylish disc is a celebration of the music of fin de siècle Vienna.
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Director Monia Chokri finds a language for communicating Sophia’s desire without putting her body on display.
Film Commentary: Looking Sharp, Leatherface! “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Turns Fifty
No 4k DVD, Blu-ray, theatrical digital, or streaming version of the movie improves on the visceral electricity of the original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”.
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