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Classical Album Review: At the “Edge of the Storm” with The Telegraph Quartet

August 25, 2025
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An impressive series of performances that are not for the faint-of-heart.

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Opera Album Review: Aleksandra Kurzak Channels a Great Singer of the Past

August 24, 2025
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World-renowned soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s homage to the great French soprano Cornélie Falcon is largely one to cherish.

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Classical Album Review: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works

August 24, 2025
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This fine album demonstrates that the music of neglected, mixed-race English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is well worth resurrecting.

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Album Review: MonoNeon — Forging His Own Psychedelic Path

August 23, 2025
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MonoNeon is the most important musician to emerge from Memphis in recent memory.

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Rock Concert Review: Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts — Still Restless After All These Years

August 23, 2025
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Regardless of his age, Neil Young, now 79, can still rage.

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Film Review: Killing Time with Talk — Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time”

August 22, 2025
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If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.

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Rock Concert Review: A Killer All-Star Edition of The Joe Perry Project

August 21, 2025
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But this wasn’t just a night for the hits. It was an occasion for raw, in-the-trenches rock (none of Aerosmith’s later commercial dreck) and rarely, if ever, played songs.

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Book Review: “A Dog in Georgia” — The Gap Between Privilege and Peril

August 21, 2025
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This is a well-crafted story about the gulf between well-off Americans who can safely ignore power politics in their daily lives (and how many of us are doing just that!) and those at the edge of being oppressed or crushed by them. 

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Rock Concert Review: The Black Keys — Back in the Zone

August 19, 2025
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The band tucked two songs from its new album into a career-spanning 95-minute show tilted toward six tunes from the Black Keys’ 2010 commercial breakthrough “Brothers.”

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Film Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” Is Somewhere in Between

August 17, 2025
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The times are out of joint for Spike Lee.

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