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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
Beethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Kurt 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.
Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
In 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.
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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