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Jazz Album Reviews: Guitar Players Rejoice — Cherished Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery Sessions Reissued as High-End LPs

March 14, 2025
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Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass are master jazz guitarists who sound nothing alike.

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Concert Review: The Kraftwerk Machine — Still Running Smoothly

March 14, 2025
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Anybody at Tuesday’s show who thought the members of Kraftwerk were just punching buttons at their static posts while audiovisuals surged automatically would be mistaken.

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Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble — Between Two Worlds

March 12, 2025
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Navigating the clash between tradition and experimentation — they are often two vastly different artistic worlds — requires bold programming.

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Concert Review: Phish’s Trey Anastasio — Playing the Role of Troubadour

March 12, 2025
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The sheepishly affable Trey Anastasio wisely focused on music, allowing him to play a broader representation of his repertoire across two hours and 25 minutes.

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Book Review: Peter Wolf’s “Waiting on the Moon” — A Captivating Memoir by Boston’s Own Zelig

March 10, 2025
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Timelines bounce a bit through the loosely organized, vignette-rooted book, where the back half casually weaves through a checklist of characters and tales not to be missed.

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Jazz Concert Review: A Moody and Skeletal Evening from a Select Trio

March 10, 2025
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A unique, memorable summit of three intellectually minded luminaries who bridged jazz, classical, Latin and South Asian influences.

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Opera Preview: “The Seasons” — A Fascinating and Disturbing Weather Report

March 8, 2025
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“I wanted, with this opera, to see if audiences and collaborators could feel something about our changing weather, in an artistic space.”

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Classical Album Review: Handel’s Oratorio “Jephtha,” in All its Highly Dramatic Glory

March 8, 2025
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Conductor Jane Glover, marvelous soloists — including superstar countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen — and a superb chorus and orchestra invigorate one of Handel’s last and greatest works.

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Film Reviews: Berlin Film Festival 2025 – Blue Moon and Cologne

March 5, 2025
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A review of two fine backstage (or offstage) comedies at the Berlinale — “Blue Moon” and “Koln 75”.

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Concert Review: Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang — Opposites Attract

March 2, 2025
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Playing side-by-side on two different pianos facing in opposite directions on the Symphony Hall stage, Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang were as complementary, in a flavorsome way, as lemon and chocolate.

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