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Some solidly impressive Mozart — aside from the filler, fifteen minutes of mono-dynamic, schlocky medleys.
It really bums me out to tell you that “MaXXXine,” the much awaited final film in the “X” trilogy, is an underwhelming ending to an otherwise interesting nu-slasher series.
Two discs: Jamaican-American musician Jordan Bak celebrates music for the viola and a reconstruction of Charles Martin Loeffler’s abandoned Octet.
The music on David Murray’s” “Francesca” is both antic and intense; it’s played by a responsive and inventive quartet who sound like they are having considerable fun entertaining themselves.
The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos is a confusing mishmash of forced weirdness.
It was not just networking that propelled William Parker into the front rank of bassists. He could generate such a huge and complex cascade of sound that he energized leaders from Cecil Taylor and Ivo Perelman to Zoh Amba.
Considering that none of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière’s history is familiar, absorbing this scholarly exhibition, which is accompanied by extensive labels and wall texts, is demanding.
Book Review: “Big Fiction” — Is the Author Hive-Mind or Queen Bee?
On closer inspection, Dan Sinykin’s notion of a “conglomerate author” is largely a fiction.
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