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Classical Album Reviews: Sibelius Symphonies from Klaus Mäkelä and Owain Arwel Hughes

February 25, 2022
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Conductor Klaus Mäkelä may be young, but, on the merits of this set, he sure seems to be the real deal. Buckle up: this ought to be an exciting career.

Film Review: “Strawberry Mansion” — Strawberry Dreams Forever

February 25, 2022
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Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.

Rock Album Review: Black Country, New Road — An Ending and a Culmination

February 25, 2022
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Regardless of what’s to come, Ants From Up There represents a dizzying creative apex for Black Country, New Road.

Rock Album Review: Big Thief’s Latest — Among 2022’s Best Albums

February 24, 2022
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Both experimental and welcoming, the double album proves more spontaneous in feel and expansive in style than past Big Thief outings.

Rock Album Review: This Live Album Proves that The Beths Are the Best

February 24, 2022
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It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.

Theater Review: “Dreaming Zenzile” — The Miriam Makeba Story

February 24, 2022
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Despite its flaws, Dreaming Zenzile reflects, with power, on the difficult relationship between art and activism.

Classical Music Album: Florence Price — “Uncovered, Vol. 2”

February 23, 2022
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This is an album that’s at once musically significant but, more than that, thoroughly enjoyable. How tragic that, largely on account of her race and gender, Florence Price’s music was almost erased.

Jazz Album Review: Pianist Billy Lester — One Very Hip Nerd

February 23, 2022
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Pianist Billy Lester is an amusingly dry fellow who is also a deeply serious, idiosyncratic musician.

Film Commentary: What Disney’s “Encanto” Says About Colombian Realities

February 23, 2022
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In Colombia and Encanto, willful ignorance is the price paid for reassurance.

Book Review: “The Sentences That Create Us” — In Prison, Triumphs Great and Small

February 23, 2022
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It’s no exaggeration to say that some of the men and women who embraced writing while they were in prison and whose work is featured in this book were writing for their lives.

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