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Pop-Folk Album Review: Singer-Songwriter Terry Kitchen Offers Up a Splendid Batch of New Songs (and a Couple of Covers)

July 5, 2025
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In his new album, Terry Kitchen moves effortlessly through lilting songs of happiness and sadness.

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Jazz Album Review: Trombonist/Composer Matteo Paggi’s “Giraffe” — Surprisingly Tall

July 5, 2025
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The planned variety of sounds and rhythms is the adroit work of a composer dedicated to both freedom and his own version of continuity.

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Classical Album Reviews: Järvi Conducts Furtwängler & Collon Conducts Sibelius

July 4, 2025
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Neeme Järvi, true to his usual form, favors brisk tempos, which tend to keep things from getting bogged down in Wilhelm Furtwängler’s bog of a Symphony No.2; Nicholas Collon leads a stupendous recording of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.

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Film Review: “Sorry, Baby” — A Tragicomic Vision of Coping with Trauma

July 3, 2025
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In a film that maintains a deft, tightrope balance of tone, writer-director-star Eva Victor has delivered an acerbically funny depiction of how we learn to cope in a world where bad things can (and often do) happen.

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Film Retrospective: “Floating Clouds … The Cinema of Naruse Mikio” — Dedicated to Women’s Passions

July 3, 2025
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Film scholars, programmers, and the many filmmakers influenced by Naruse Miko value him as having crafted well-rounded portraits of women and their lives across decades of Japanese cultural changes.

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Concert Review: Singer/Composer Jon Batiste — Raising Spirits

July 2, 2025
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Jon Batiste’s performance resonated with what musician Zachary Richard calls the “holy trinity” of Louisiana music: Cajun, zydeco, and “old-fashioned” rock and roll.

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Classical Music Album Reviews: Violinist Lea Birringer Performs Sibelius & Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Shostakovich

July 2, 2025
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Violinist Lea Birringer does dazzlingly right by Sibelius and Szymanowski concertos and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason finds life and defiance in Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2.

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Concert Review: Pianist Jonathan Biss — Masterful Performances of Schubert

July 1, 2025
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Rockport Chamber Music Festival is in the midst of a stellar season. Saturday evening, the brilliant pianist (and writer) Jonathan Biss gave a sensational recital of two late Schubert sonatas—a music lover’s dream.

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Theater Interview: Hip-Hopper Baba Israel on “I Spy an Adventure!”

July 1, 2025
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“When you collaborate with an audience and other artists, and you let hip hop flow and intertwine, anything goes.”

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Book Review: “Via Ápia” — Life in Brazil’s Lower Depths

July 1, 2025
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Hearing the novel’s poignant voices, we can’t help but think that in many respects the plight of poor young men in the ’hood is everywhere alike.

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