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Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Climate Crisis, Debra Wise, The Underground Railway Theater

Music Interview: Singer-Songwriter James McMurtry — Playing With Words

James McMurtry’s Facebook page describes him as “Steadily Shedding Fans Since 1989.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Blake Maddux, James-McMurtry

Opera Interview: Director Anne Bogart Takes on “Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs”

“We take the audience on a journey that’s not part of a traditional approach to opera.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Opera Tagged: Anne Bogart, Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Flynn Cruiseport, The Terminal

Music Interview: YouTube Algorithm Causes Major Disruption to Jazz Video Guy, Bret Primack

Bret Primack explains how YouTube has basically nuked the Jazz Video Guy channel. And the same thing is happening to other content creators.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Jazz, Music Tagged: Bret Primack, Jazz Video Guy, Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack, Steve Provizer

Concert Preview/Interview: John Lodge of the Moody Blues on Reprising “Days of Future Passed”

“I love music, I play every day,” John Lodge says. “I don’t want to let the audience down or myself or the members of my band. They give me 150% every night so I have to be physically and mentally right for them.”

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: '60s rock, Days of Future Passed, Graeme Edge, John Lodge, Moody Blues, rock

Dance Interview: Rachel Linsky on Taking Holocaust Education Outside of the Jewish Community

In choreographer Rachel Linsky’s hands — and the bodies of her articulate, reverberating dancers — you gain both kinesthetic and emotional access to the worlds of those who lived the Holocaust.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: Aaron Elster, antisemitism, Hidden, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Olivia Link, Rachel Linsky, Thea Singer

Music Interview: Blues Guitarist Seth Rosenbloom on “As the Crow Flies”

“I always say if you want to write a blues album, have a nice bad breakup!”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: As the Crow Flies, blues, Seth Rosenbloom

Music Interview: Barrence Whitfield — Still Savage After All These Years

“It’s up to us to remind those making music today to never forget those pioneers. I always say if it wasn’t for R&B, jazz, and gospel there’d be no Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Preview Tagged: Barrence Whitfield, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Monsters + Angels, Nervous Eaters, Noah Schaffer, Regent Theatre

Translator Interview: John Taylor on Philippe Jaccottet

“We have entered an age of unequivocal partisan discourse, of linguistic robotization, of tiny symbols standing for complex emotions. In total contrast to this, Philippe Jaccottet’s writing constantly shows nuance, attentiveness, perseverance, circumspection, and a genuine quest for essential truths.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Interview, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, French poetry, John Taylor, La Clarté Notre-Dame, Obscurity, Philippe Jaccottet, Seagull Books, The Last Book of the Madrigals

Concert Preview/Interview: Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega is many things: a singer/songwriter, musician, poet, author, entrepreneur, playwright, and actress. A number of her personas are converging right now.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: An Evening of New York Songs and Stories, Jason M. Rubin, Lover Beloved, Suzanne Vega

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