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Stage Remembrance: Words on the Death of Alvin Epstein — “Nothing is Left to Tell”

December 13, 2018
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I speak for the legions who benefitted from your friendship and your great energy and talent.

Book Review: “Playing Changes” — Redefining Jazz

December 13, 2018
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This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.

Classical Music Review: Tallis Scholars — Dependable Delight

December 12, 2018
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The Tallis Scholars are unquestionably today’s most renowned exponent of Renaissance sacred music.

Arts Remembrance: Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks — A Matter of the Heart

December 12, 2018
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Pete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.

Theater Review: “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” — Rabbit Transit

December 11, 2018
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The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.

Classical CD Review: Best Opera Recording of the Year — Or is it Best Musical?

December 11, 2018
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None of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.

Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It

December 11, 2018
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It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.

Theater Review: “Breath & Imagination” — An Indomitable Voice

December 11, 2018
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The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.

Visual Arts Review: “Living Objects — African American Puppetry,” Challenging Cultural Erasure

December 11, 2018
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Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.

Theater Review: “Man in the Ring” — A Precipitous Fall

December 10, 2018
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Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.

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