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Book Review: John Hersey — Reporting Truthfully, at All Costs

April 29, 2019
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John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.

Concert Music Review: The Boston Philharmonic plays Ives and Mahler

April 28, 2019
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This performance of Ives’ Third was the most welcome entry in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s celebratory season – a beautifully considered, powerfully rendered account of this too-neglected score.

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

April 28, 2019
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This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

Theater Review: “Beetlejuice” Bombards Broadway

April 27, 2019
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Beetlejuice may not be the blockbuster its creators are hoping for, but it is occasionally humorous and rarely dull.

Film Review: “Her Smell” — Fiddling with Our Viscera

April 26, 2019
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Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.

Jazz CD Review: The Art Ensemble of Chicago — Still Out on the Edge

April 25, 2019
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Amid the continual flood of new jazz releases, this anniversary bash is one to be savored.

Film Preview: Independently Ours — IFFBoston Celebrates Another Year of Community

April 24, 2019
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As always, IFFBoston’s Executive Director Brian Tamm and Program Director Nancy Campbell have curated a stellar lineup of films that promises to represent the very best of current American and international cinema.

Film Interview: “Ira Gitler Lives” — From Bret Primack, Jazz Documentarian Extraordinaire

April 24, 2019
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“The half-hearted support of jazz by American broadcast TV, be it commercial or PBS or cable, has been an insult not only to the artists, but to the public as well.”

Concert Music Review: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Pianist Evgeny Kissin — An Odd Dream Team

April 23, 2019
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A bit surprising — that two megastars choose such meat and potatoes repertoire.

Arts Fuse Podcast #14: Dialectics of Politicized Art, or the Intellectual History of White Men in Cars

April 23, 2019
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The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.

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