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Moses(es) has many layers of metaphor and suggestion, but the surface is always visually intriguing, musically imaginative
Read MoreThe pop magic that Belle and Sebastian excels at struggles to survive on the band’s new album because its dance-heavy vibe plays against their strengths.
Woods Hill Table is the 153-seat culmination of a vision that encompasses the locavore movement in impressive fashion.
Read MoreRobert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.
Read MoreWhen no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.
Read More“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”
Read MoreThere was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.
Read MoreBoston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group Kodō crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.
Read MoreAscending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.
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