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Pop Album Review: Beach House’s “Once Twice Melody” — Plenty of the Same Old Good Thing

March 28, 2022
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Once Twice Melody goes about refining rather than changing Beach House’s vision of dream pop.

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Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

March 28, 2022
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In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.

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Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Delightful Skewering of the West’s Fantasies of Japan

March 27, 2022
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A major contribution to the recorded repertory, making clear just how effective Saint-Saëns’s The Yellow Princess could be on stage, its nowadays objectionable title repudiated by its varied and nuanced approach to the evocation of the exotic.

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Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

March 27, 2022
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This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

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Jazz Album Review: Jean-Michel Pilc’s “Alive: Live at Dièse Onze, Montreal” — Flurries of Fascinating Ideas

March 25, 2022
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Jean-Michel Pilc is a talented pianist who expresses his happiness at just being alive via performances that treat the most revered standards in a manner that is wholly personal, even idiosyncratic — yet memorable.

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Book Review: Looking Back, Fondly, on “The Modem World”

March 25, 2022
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This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications.

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Jazz Album Review: Danilo Pérez featuring The Global Messengers — Projecting Light in a Dark World

March 24, 2022
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This cooperative music is deliberately international in instrumentation and personnel and theme, proffering its own characteristic, and often quite beautiful, mix of sounds.

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Visual Arts Review: “Milton Avery” — The Slow But Steady Growth of an American Master

March 24, 2022
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Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.

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Jazz Concert and Album Review: Vincent Peirani and Emile Parisien — Bringing Culture to the Colonies

March 23, 2022
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The communication between Vincent Peirani’s accordion and Emile Parisien’s soprano sax was effortless, empathetic, and flawless.

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Visual Art Review: The Enigma of Sol LeWitt

March 23, 2022
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints is a compelling opportunity for immersion in an important aspect of the artist’s work

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