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Concert Review: Pianist Jeremy Denk — Probing Intelligence and Wit

March 4, 2013
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Pianist Jeremy Denk wields a large artillery of dynamics and colors and it served him well in this performance.

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Classical Music Interview: Playing by Heart — The Chiara String Quartet

March 3, 2013
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Playing by heart with these three incredible people is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done as a musician, and I look forward to many more years of doing this with the Chiara Quartet. — Gregory Beaver of the Chiara String Quartet

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Fuse Theater Review: The Indiscreet Indifference of the Bourgeoisie

March 2, 2013
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Both authors generate humor out of the casual inhumanity of the bourgeoise, dramatizing how the farce of middle class success distorts its victors and victims.

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Short Fuse: Talking the “Mind and Cosmos” Blues

March 1, 2013
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Thomas Nagel: Has he penned a rallying cry for those who have no taste for much science in the first place?

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Classical Music Sampler: March 2013

March 1, 2013
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March is a month to hear amazing pianists – Jeremy Denk, George Li, Charlie Albright, Jeffrey Swann, Wu Han, and Lydia Artymiw – as well as inspiring choruses and unusual chamber music

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Coming Attractions in Film: March 2013

March 1, 2013
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The pre-festival film season features free screenings, a selection of international cinemas, many great documentary films, and a weekend of feminist films.

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Coming Attractions in Local Rock: March 2013

February 28, 2013
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It’s March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical offerings around the city this month.

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Theater Review: New York Theater Roundup — “Clive,” “The Dance and the Railroad” and “The Flick”

February 27, 2013
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By planning ahead, and purchasing one flexpass, I was able to see a trio of plays in New York during a single weekend for well under $200 — a bargain price for world-class theater productions.

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Concert Review: Aisslinn Nosky and the Handel and Haydn Society/Harry Christophers

February 25, 2013
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Handel and Haydn artistic director Harry Christophers placed a composer who is familiar, but not always the focus of attention, front and center, and, in the process, reminded us just how good a musician Haydn was.

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Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

February 25, 2013
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Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

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