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These picture books explore music history and an avant-garde composer who challenged convention.
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Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.
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Reviews of Hélène Grimaud’s latest homage to Clara Schumann and La Tempête investigates seeming stylistic overlaps in the music of J. S. Bach, Henryk Górecki, Jehan Alain, Knut Nystedt, and John Adams.
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.
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Susan Tedeschi has developed a way to assert her powerhouse presence without upending the overall balance of the big band.
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The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
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Auber’s 1831 “Le Philtre” (“The Love Potion”) is an engaging romp that helped give birth to Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore.” Immensely popular in his own day, why isn’t it revived more often?
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By Jeremy Ray Jewell Call it lofi or chillwave. Whatever it is, it’s worth it. Daisuke Endo, a.k.a. DE DE MOUSE, has released his new EP, Rainbowtime, in collaboration with fellow Japanese artist Shin-Ski. It is, as Endo describes it, based on “the theme of a world connected to fantasy during the magic time of…
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues