Review

Theater Review: “An Inspector Calls” — Sobering Morality Play

July 19, 2018
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An Inspector Calls speaks with ease to our own times, bedeviled with “alternate facts” and ethical doubts.

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Jazz CD Review: Coltrane’s “Lost Album” — Not the Holy Grail

July 18, 2018
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You might argue that this session was forgotten, but this new release shouldn’t be thought of as lost — because no one was looking for it

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Book Review: “Dreaming The Beatles” — A Missed Opportunity

July 18, 2018
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Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.

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Classical CD Reviews: Mendelssohn music for Cello and Piano, Neave Trio’s French Moments, Schubert’s Octet, and Nelsons’ Shostakovich

July 17, 2018
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Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.

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Theater Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” — A Not So Subtle Sequel

July 17, 2018
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The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.

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Classical Music Review: Colin Carr’s Bach — A Trifecta of Beauty

July 16, 2018
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Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach’s Six Cello Suites.

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Classical CD Reviews: Schumann’s Choral Music and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang

July 15, 2018
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Conductor Aapo Häkkinen explores Robert Schumann’s writing for chorus;Andrew Manze caps off his three-volume Mendelssohn symphony survey with a glorious performance of the oddball Symphony no. 2.

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Jazz CD Review: Erroll Garner’s “Nightconcert” — Memorably High Energy

July 14, 2018
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Nightconcert contains enough that is new and fresh to make this album one of the exciting discoveries of the year.

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Classical CD Reviews: Gardner’s Elgar, Francois-Xavier Roth’s Ravel, and Orchestral Music by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison

July 14, 2018
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Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.

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Classical CD Review: A Superb Version of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place”

July 13, 2018
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Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.

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