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Film Preview: Sasha Lane on the Heroic Honesty of “American Honey”

October 6, 2016
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“It was really hard to get to certain places and bring up memories and experiences and put that out there.”

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Book Review: Rabih Alameddine’s “Angel of History” — Knocked Askew

October 5, 2016
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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #10 — Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Frieze”

October 4, 2016
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.

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Theater Review: “A Gun Show” — A Percussive Meditation on Firearms

October 4, 2016
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This company of highly talented collaborators asks: “What is it about our collective psyche that fastens on so tightly to guns?”

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Cultural Commentary: Wells Fargo — Let Them Eat Art

October 3, 2016
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Is truth and beauty served when the arts just take the money from the big banks and run?

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Preview/Interview: Jörg Widmann’s “Trauermarsch” — An Idea of Paradise

October 3, 2016
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To speak with Jörg Widmann is to encounter a mind furiously at work and aware of his craft as viewed through the lens of Western history.

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Classical Music CD Reviews: Hrůša’s Dvorák, “The Lost Songs of St. Kilda,” and Steve Richman’s Gershwin

October 2, 2016
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The Lost Songs of St. Kilda is a disc that’s simple but profound, beautiful and enduring.

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Classical Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Der Rosenkavalier” — The Tops

October 1, 2016
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It is unlikely that any other BSO concert this year will top Thursday night’s performance of Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier.

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Visual Arts Review: Terry Winters — A Distinctive “Structure of Things”

October 1, 2016
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Something clicked when I visited the MFA’s diminutive but brilliant new exhibition of Terry Winters’ works on paper.

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Visual Arts Review: “Phantom Limb” — Diana Al-Hadid’s Art of the Meltdown

September 30, 2016
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Dissolution is a mysterious, and constant, element in Diana Al-Hadid’s vision.

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