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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra/Benjamin Zander at Sanders Theater

February 22, 2013
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In the slow third movement, Mr. Zander, the BPO, and the Symphony seemed to really be in sync: the music breathed, sighed, sang, and unfolded at a natural pace that brought out the best in everybody.

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Book Review: Poet/Essayist Richard J. Fein — Yiddish as Mother Tongue and Lost Lover

February 22, 2013
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“The Beginning-End of Yiddish,” is poet/essayist Richard Fein’s core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.

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Film Critics: Talking Serious Oscar Talk

February 21, 2013
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Few events draw more prognosticators than the Oscars, and the Arts Fuse movie critics join in on the universal guessing game. The trio agree on one thing: the field this year is rich with worthy and fascinating nominees.

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Book Review: A Provocative Memoir about Growing up Gay in Japan

February 20, 2013
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American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.

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Theater Review: “Lungs” — The Protocol of a Bittersweet Romance

February 20, 2013
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Presence is the sense that the actors live in the here and now, every minute, every second they are on stage. And Liz Hayes and Nael Nacer do that in the New Rep production of Lungs.

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Book Review: A Remarkable “My Beloved World”

February 19, 2013
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This is not just a story of a plucky girl succeeding; in weaving her complicated story and giving credit to those who helped her to understand how to think critically and how to develop her own moral philosophy, Sonia Sotomayor never forgets that luck and serendipity also play a part.

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Book Review: Bringing Nathaniel Hawthorne Home

February 18, 2013
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Unlike fellow apostate (and friend) Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne didn’t have the chutzpah to be a proto-existentialist — for him, it was better to cling to questionable moral pieties than plummet into sheer nothingness.

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Jazz Review: The Bad Plus Celebrates Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

February 17, 2013
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Postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest Stravinsky ever performed.

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Dance Review: The Joy of Swimming Upstream — Emily Johnson’s “Niicugni”

February 16, 2013
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Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.

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Jazz Review: Terri Lyne Carrington Takes on the “Money Jungle”

February 15, 2013
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No one would say that Terri Lyne Carrington’s versions of Ellington’s pieces are definitive, but they extend the legendary composer’s legacy in a personal and significant way.

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