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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.
Read MoreHere’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
Read MoreThe magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
Read MoreCharlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
Read MoreBeethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Read MoreKurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
Read MoreAbraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
Read MoreIn his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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