Review
A three-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, “Dependent Arising” fuses the worlds of heavy metal, punk rock, and 20th-century classical composition into a furious, frenetic, sometimes tortured thirty-minute whole.
Ultimately, then, we’ve got something special here: a fresh take on some canonic works by a conductor and soloist whose bread-and-butter is this very fare.
Aharon Appelfeld’s final novel is haunting meditation on how to deal with past hostilities that are all too present.
The horndog plot of this wild comedy: two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation
Three gruesome films by debut directors put the horror back in vacui.
Karina Rykman’s rookie recored, “Joyride,” delivers a beguiling blend of pop smarts and psychedelic proclivities.
The nearly 60 women science writers mentioned in “Writing for Their Lives” – and listed in an appendix – are testament to women’s pioneering contribution to science journalism.
“Bad Things” tries out a lot of ideas, many of them good, but a crisis in identity results in slapdash execution.
In this script, dramatist Martyna Majok has created an opportunity for those who live in (or near) cities to see and hear the struggles of the underclass.
The two vintage works on the program at Jacob’s Pillow demonstrated, in a palpable manner, to what extent Martha Graham’s work changed everything.
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