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This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
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Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra don’t do right by Berlioz.
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Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
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The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
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“Now I’m retired, but I still look forward to honoring the legacy of John Coltrane.”
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Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
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American String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
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Help sustain an endangered journalistic species — substantial critical coverage of the arts.
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With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
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Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
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