Review
Two new releases, led respectively by a saxophonist and a bassist, add to the growing mystique of trios in contemporary jazz.
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Swiss composer Richard Flury’s engaging comic opera is a celebration of the life spirit, and a criticism of celibacy as a practice that cramps and distorts an individual’s basic humanity.
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A Far Cry’s program of new and old music revealed that the simplest gestures can generate wonder.
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This is a whimsical, well-written novel about an artistically respected Jewish family who managed to escape Nazi-annexed Austria at a perilously late date — September, 1939.
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It is as poignant as it is ominous that Jeff Weaver will be among the last painters to document the last gasps of Gloucester as locals have known and loved it
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Maybe The Zombies are not quite as elaborately visionary as they used to be, but after all this time that is no great sin. And Colin Blunstone and Ron Argent’s breathy but soulful voices have held up magnificently.
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The point of the revelatory exercises in Second Star is to mentally invigorate, to sharpen how we look at the things in plain sight that we take for granted.
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Netflix’s dumb series Sanctuary serves up a cartoon view of sumo wrestling.
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Kerry Howley’s expose is a vibrant report on the chaotic and often disquieting world of surveillance and national security.
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Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth
Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.
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