Review

Film Review: “Nope” – Behold, the Great American Spectacle

August 2, 2022
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Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.

Book Review: “The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones” — A Tabloid Take

August 2, 2022
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The Stone Age is only about the gossip, to the point where even when something (potentially) true comes along, it still reads like trash.

Visual Arts Review: Clark Art Institute — America Discovers Rodin

July 31, 2022
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern is the show of the summer in the Berkshires — remarkably extensive, with 25 works on paper and 50 sculptures in terra cotta, plaster, marble, and bronze.

Film Review: More Than Oral Fixation — Director Lucile Hadžihalilovićs Icily Fetishistic “Earwig”

July 29, 2022
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Earwig taps into a diabolical Freudian cabinet of uncanny curiosities and symbols.

Theater Review: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s “Much Ado” — “A Giddy Thing”

July 29, 2022
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Shakespeare’s text has been streamlined for easy consumption on a summer’s evening — there’s no intermission, lots of physical comedy, and a party vibe.

Listening During Covid, Part 13 — Music of Brazil and Other Latin American Countries, Religious Consolation from Post-WW I England, and an Operatic Novel

July 29, 2022
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New recordings serve up fine performances of music from Latin America, Brazil, and post-1918 England. And a novel sends its main character back two centuries into Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

Classical Album Review: What Is American — PUBLIQuartet

July 28, 2022
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American-ness in music is impossible to define and constantly in flux, yet the threads that connect it all together – at once beautiful, tragic, humorous, ironic, whimsical – are all somehow recognizable.

Classical Album Review: Weill & Shostakovich Symphonies

July 28, 2022
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Taken together, this is a release that showcases both the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor – as well as their repertoire choices – in a brilliant light.

Book Review: “The Crossroads of Civilization” — Vienna as Bridge Builder Between East and West

July 27, 2022
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Angus Robertson has written a thoroughly enjoyable history of Vienna that is both accurate and entertaining.

2022 Newport Folk Festival Review: An Occasion for Awe

July 27, 2022
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The Newport Folk Festival’s biggest secrets were cleanly hidden and tightly executed with the day-capping revelations of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.

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