Ledelle Moe’s work is fresh, innovative, and contemporary — yet deeply rooted in a primal humanism that courses through the millennia of every continent and culture.
Review
Theater Review: “Timon of Athens” — Greed is not Good
Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.
Theater Review: “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” — Cognitive Play
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes suggests some marvelous possibilities.
Classical CD Reviews: Ádám Fischer conducts Mahler, Mariss Jansons conducts Rodion Shchedrin & Respighi, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann
Ádám Fischer’s reading of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is breathtakingly clean.
Arts Remembrance: Homage to Claudio Roditi
Apart from Claudio Roditi’s musical skill, what stood out was his warmth.
Theater Review: “The Undoing of Prudencia Hart” — Lost in Spaciness
Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.
Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor
What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
Book Review: “Were We Awake” — Speculating in the Dark
L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
Film Review: “Les Misérables” — Nobody is Safe
Les Misérables invites us to ponder, in real time, how people respond in a chaotic, dangerous situation.
Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited” — Continuing the Struggle for Civil Rights
In this disc dedicated to black heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Christian McBride insists that everyone must be free if any of us is going to be.