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Album Review: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “Chasing Yesterday”

March 3, 2015
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If you’re interested in ol’ reliable Noel Gallagher songs, there are a couple of examples on Chasing Yesterday

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Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

March 2, 2015
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The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Who Will Program?

March 2, 2015
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My data might be depressing for anyone who wants a lot of novelty in the concert hall. But I found that some orchestras are taking more risks than the pessimists say.

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Jazz Remembrance: Jazz Trumpeter Extraordinaire Clark Terry

March 2, 2015
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Gradually, Clark Terry developed on the trumpet the rounded, full tone that became so distinctive.

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Concert Review: Violinist Julia Fischer and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

March 1, 2015
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Julia Fischer’s account of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) this weekend was nothing if not dynamic and impressive.

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Arts Commentary: Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum Envisions the Future — Now

March 1, 2015
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To call the American Visionary Art Museum quirky would be an understatement: therein lies its charm as well as one of the reason for its success, even in economic hard times.

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Book Review: “Medieval Christianity” — All Too Human

February 28, 2015
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Harvard Divinity School professor Kevin Madigan’s scholarly but always compelling exposition of the evolution of the church will spark introspection among practicing Christians.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — A Respectable “Lady of the Camellias”

February 28, 2015
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What I didn’t see opening night was passion. The characters, all living on the edge of respectability, are comfortable in their own world, but as individuals most of them don’t assert themselves.

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Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik

February 27, 2015
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Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.

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Concert Review: Genius Finally Getting its Proper Due — Blue Heron’s “Ockeghem@600”

February 27, 2015
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The first in what is surely going to be Blue Heron’s memorable series of testaments to the neglected brilliance of composer Johannes Ockeghem.

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