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Classical Music Album Review: Beatrice Rana plays Schumann

March 7, 2023
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Pianist Beatrice Rana, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yanick Nézet-Séguin, plays the daylights out of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.

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Film Review: Seoul Mates

March 7, 2023
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In this complex and enigmatic film, director Davy Chou has skillfully conjured up both a sense of time’s passage and a mood of timelessness.

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Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble — Animated by The Bard

March 7, 2023
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Chamber music under Shakespeare’s spell is responsible for one of the high points of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s current season.

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Book Review: “All Sorts of Lives” — Katherine Mansfield, A Magician With Words

March 6, 2023
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We can only wonder what Katherine Mansfield might have given us had she lived a normal life span, yet we should cherish what we have, as Claire Harman has done so beautifully.

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Theater Review: “The Wife of Willesden” — Pleasantly Bawdy

March 6, 2023
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If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The New Geometry of Boston’s Skyline

March 5, 2023
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Two campus structures and one downtown office building speak a new visual language.

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Film Reviews: Golda and Sean at the Berlin International Film Festival

March 4, 2023
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This year’s Berlin International Film Festival launched a couple of films aimed at a mass audience. The results were mixed.

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Film Review: “The Quiet Girl” (An Cailín Ciúin) — Childhood Through a Glass, Softly

March 3, 2023
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The Quiet Girl is the first Irish language nominee for the Best International Feature Oscar, and it’s not hard to see why this subdued gem of a film is capturing hearts.

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Classical Album Reviews: Gianandrea Noseda and Franz Welser-Möst Conduct Prokofiev

March 3, 2023
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Two takes on the orchestral music of Prokofiev — one impish and unpretentious, the other revelatory.

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Book Review: “Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running”

March 3, 2023
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Anyone who cares deeply about cinema owes Jonas Mekas an abiding debt for all that he did for independent American filmmaking.

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