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Book Review: “The Last Utopians” — Visions for Tomorrow?

May 22, 2018
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Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?

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Jazz CD Review: Larry Goldings’s “Toy Tunes” — A Diverting Trio

May 22, 2018
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The music and performances on this delightful trio album are blithe and profound, a combination that should charm many listeners.

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Dance Review: Displaced Persons — New York Theatre Ballet at Gardner Museum

May 21, 2018
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Going beyond the reasonable concept, there was the New York Theatre Ballet’s performance.

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Jazz CD Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling’s Simple “Questions”

May 21, 2018
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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.

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Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

May 20, 2018
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

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Coming Attractions: May 20 through June 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 20, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Visual Arts Interview: New Publics — Art for a Modern India, 1960s-’90s

May 19, 2018
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What was the influence of Western modernist imperatives on an art-making culture far removed from Europe and the US?

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Visual Arts Commentary: Hugh Ferriss — Architectural Delineator of the Heroic Modern

May 19, 2018
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A visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects.

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Classical CD Review: Andrew Manze and Vaughan Williams, Andris Nelsons and Anton Bruckner

May 19, 2018
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.

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Classical CD Review: Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach and Glass and James Brawn’s Beethoven Odyssey vol. 5

May 18, 2018
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Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.

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