Review
Reviews of Hélène Grimaud’s latest homage to Clara Schumann and La Tempête investigates seeming stylistic overlaps in the music of J. S. Bach, Henryk Górecki, Jehan Alain, Knut Nystedt, and John Adams.
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.
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The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.
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Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
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Auber’s 1831 “Le Philtre” (“The Love Potion”) is an engaging romp that helped give birth to Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore.” Immensely popular in his own day, why isn’t it revived more often?
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By Jeremy Ray Jewell Call it lofi or chillwave. Whatever it is, it’s worth it. Daisuke Endo, a.k.a. DE DE MOUSE, has released his new EP, Rainbowtime, in collaboration with fellow Japanese artist Shin-Ski. It is, as Endo describes it, based on “the theme of a world connected to fantasy during the magic time of…
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In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.
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Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.
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It’s good to hear the Basie band stretch. But it’s even better to hear them exult the blues with their own time-honored style leading the way.
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I’m happy to add the brujas of “A Tall Dark Magic” to my own personal spell book featuring the names of the witches I love.
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