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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.
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
“Now I’m retired, but I still look forward to honoring the legacy of John Coltrane.”
Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
American String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
Help sustain an endangered journalistic species — substantial critical coverage of the arts.
With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy