Review
Nothing to recommend in Daniel Lozakovich’s take on the Beethoven Violin Concerto, but Midori’s performance of the piece is completely unpretentious, natural, and exciting. Gidon Kremer & friends serve up a terrifically flexible version of Carl Reinecke’s adaptation of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
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Those looking to understand why Dolly Parton is such an icon, or searching for a thoughtful and witty alternative to Hillbilly Elegy, would do well to read this book.
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A delightful and compact opera — from a generation before Mozart — that cuts various social types down to size.
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This is not your typical horror film; it thoughtfully explores how houses and people can both be haunted.
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“I think these shots bring out the fierceness of black metal, and the models are saying, ‘We can be this.’”
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It’s hard to imagine many of Gail Mazur’s poems emerging from anywhere else than from inside Route 128.
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In this innovative series, the Huntington Theatre Company has charged 11 local playwrights to imagine a future vision of Boston, post-pandemic, when “we can once again meet and connect in our city.”
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Composer Anna Clyne’s new disc displays her maturity as a composer and brilliance as an orchestrator; pianist Simone Dinnerstein builds a number of bridges between Philip Glass and Franz Schubert; pianist Hélène Grimaud’s interesting program is marred by some uneven Mozart.
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Please don’t get on a plane for Thanksgiving. Avoid Covid by eating your turkey dinner before your computer screen, and watching — all free! — these handpicked classic movie entertainments.
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The new Animaniacs provides no good reason for reviving Yakko, Wakko, and Dot in the 21st century.
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