Review

Book Review: “My Affair with Art House Cinema” — Still Hot and Heavy

December 2, 2024
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It’s hard to imagine anyone connected with the movie world who is not appreciative of  Phillip Lopate for the grace and intelligence and knowledge he has brought to film criticism.

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Classical Album Reviews: James Ehnes plays Sibelius and Frank Dupree performs Kapustin Concerti

December 2, 2024
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There are already countless fine documents of the Sibelius Concerto, but Canadian violinist James Ehnes finds new angles from which to examine this favorite; Frank Dupree is a dexterous keyboardist whose grasp of Nikolai Kapustin’s jazzy style is assured.

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Concert Review: The Chameleon Arts Ensemble Channels the Energies of Adolescence

December 1, 2024
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The group presented a program of edgy music with the bloom of youth.

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Album Review: “Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995” — The Complete Laura Nyro

December 1, 2024
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You can get away with being familiar with just an album or two, but Laura Nyro’s music always rewards repeated listenings, and following her mercurial career so thoroughly restores her to three-dimensional life.

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Jazz Concert Review: Vijay Iyer Trio — A Hard Won Freedom

November 29, 2024
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The Vijay Iyer Trio creates an atmosphere that becomes so intense listeners are compelled to share the vibe.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Dance of Life” American Style — Not Renaissance-Ready

November 29, 2024
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The symbolism here can grate loudly against reality. Those panels extolling the creativity and stoic virtues of the American working class clash with the ways workers were actually treated during the Gilded Age.

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Television Review: “Beatles ’64” – When They Were 64

November 27, 2024
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The most recent in an apparently boundless reservoir of Beatles documentaries will “please please” their fans.

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Classical Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Kevin Puts’s “The Brightness of Light”

November 27, 2024
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Kevin Puts’s mesmerizing song cycle probes the passion, loss, and resignation in the relationship between the artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

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Book Review: “Big Time” — Satirizing Small Time, Short Term Thinkers

November 27, 2024
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We should be grateful to Rus Bradburd for giving us an opportunity to laugh as the forces of marketing and ignorance steamroll — ominously and without sufficient kickback — across the academic landscape.

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Book Review: “Feh: A Memoir” — “Take My Life…Please!”

November 27, 2024
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In “Feh,” Shalom Auslander confronts being middle-aged, a time of life that, given his external circumstances, you would think he would be celebrating. But, instead of kvelling, he’s sunk, hilariously, in the depths of despair.

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