Review

Rethinking the Repertoire #22 – Florence Price’s “Mississippi River Suite”

June 6, 2018
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Composer Florence Price’s lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.

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Theater Review: “The Wiz”: Not in Kansas Anymore

June 5, 2018
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A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.

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Book Review: “Never Anyone But You” — Fiction to Treasure

June 4, 2018
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Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #21– Alban Berg’s “Altenberg-Lieder”

June 2, 2018
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The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.

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Theater Review: “Evening at the Talk House” — Amusing Ourselves to Dystopia

June 1, 2018
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Evening at the Talk House is a savage indictment of our country’s acceptance of the immense, horrific violence necessary to maintain our consumer comforts.

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Theater Review: A Tepid “Fall”

June 1, 2018
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Fall’s conflict is presented with insufficient power; its domestic tragedy is not propelled along its inevitably troubling course.

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Dance Review: Wayne McGregor’s Anemic “Rite of Spring”

May 31, 2018
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Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?

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Book Review: “Blown” – A Madcap Journey

May 31, 2018
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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.

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Theater Review: “Jagged Little Pill” — A Relevant and Rocking Brew

May 30, 2018
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In the end, Jagged Little Pill manages to spotlight multiple modern problems while making us care about its characters.

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Film Review: At Harvard Film Archive –“The Complete Luchino Visconti”

May 30, 2018
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Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.

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