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iIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap consistently and adamantly opposed it.
Read MoreActors’ Shakespeare Project’s production is a fine start to the company’s tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement — for this company, story and the actor’s craft trump directorial conceits.
Read MoreNew discs from Harmonia Mundi: One explores the music of Pulitzer prize-winner Kevin Puts, the other focuses on the songs of Hanns Eisler, and it is one of the most fascinating albums to come from any label so far this year.
Read MoreI Used to Be Darker is a movie of small pleasures, lots of them.
Read MoreReveries, the ice ballet that audiences will get to see in a special benefit performance this weekend, is Edward Villella’s translation of balletic structures and forms into contemporary figure skating technique.
Read MoreTwo new releases from Harmonia Mundi celebrate the sacred and secular sides of the Christmas season.
Read MoreLightning Bolt, Pearl Jam’s tenth and latest studio album, takes the band’s newfound (or at least newly re-found) appreciation for radio-friendly mainstream rock and successfully stretches its parameters a bit.
Read MoreInterestingly, both of these powerful visions of horror root their avenging vision of mayhem in the brutal mistreatment of children.
Read MoreA new disc of music by Martin Schlumpf, one of the leading figures in Swiss contemporary music whose career focuses on “the borderlands between improvisation and composition.”
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