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Both Newport festivals rose to the challenge of restoring live music in a year that made it difficult and welcome.
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This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
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Contra-Tiempo sees the pandemic as an invitation for transformation: the performance questioned who we are, how do we move among each other, and what gives us joy.
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The Norwegian soprano’s execution of the vocal line in Luonnotar is nothing short of astounding.
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Folk On both exceeded and tempered expectations.
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This is state-of-the-art modern jazz with an up-and-coming lead soloist, well-chosen guests, and a dream rhythm section.
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Her poems are sassy.
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A delightful recording — and the first ever! — of arias from Hasse’s and Gluck’s operas about Tigranes and Cleopatra of Pontus. Plus four arias by Vivaldi for that same Cleopatra.
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662 will appeal to hard-core blues fans along with those who want more of a hyphenated blues sound, be it blues-rock, blues-funk or blues-pop.
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This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.
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Book Review: “Unfinished” Argues for AI as an Artistic Partner — But at What Cost?