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Jazz Review: SF Jazz Collective at Berklee, 3/8/13—This Year’s Model

March 14, 2013
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The members of the Collective seem to have an understanding that their job is to make music that reflects a group identity as well as their individual personalities.

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Fuse Concert Review: Vladimir Jurowski Leads the London Philharmonic at Symphony Hall

March 12, 2013
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The Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would match or exceed expectations. The question was whether the Beethoven would.

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Stage Review: Rejuvenating Harold Pinter’s Kinky One-Act, “The Lover”

March 12, 2013
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Whether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.

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Book Review: A Powerful Remembrance of the Cambodian Genocide — “The Elimination”

March 11, 2013
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Ultimately, “The Elimination” is less a literary effort than an act of witness by both writer and reader.

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Stage Interview: Turf Wars — “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park”

March 10, 2013
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“Clybourne Park” was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” The former gives us a new perspective — actually new perspectives — on the latter.

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Theater Review: “Clybourne Park” — Chafing at the Raw Wound of Racism

March 8, 2013
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In Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer prize-winning play “Clybourne Park,” resentment and racism chafe at the thin veneer of polite pleasantries.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: March 2013

March 8, 2013
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[UPDATE: Yes, the Aardvark concert is happening!] Aardvark Jazz Orchestra turns 40, Mango Blue makes a one-night return, Evan Ziporyn plays Don Byron’s new clarinet concerto, drummer Brian Blade arrives with his Fellowship band, and much, much more.

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Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

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Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise — Not the New Radiohead

March 6, 2013
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The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

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Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2013

March 4, 2013
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The month’s standouts include Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.

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