Review

Dance Review: Displaced Persons — New York Theatre Ballet at Gardner Museum

May 21, 2018
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Going beyond the reasonable concept, there was the New York Theatre Ballet’s performance.

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Jazz CD Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling’s Simple “Questions”

May 21, 2018
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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.

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Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

May 20, 2018
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

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Visual Arts Interview: New Publics — Art for a Modern India, 1960s-’90s

May 19, 2018
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What was the influence of Western modernist imperatives on an art-making culture far removed from Europe and the US?

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Classical CD Review: Andrew Manze and Vaughan Williams, Andris Nelsons and Anton Bruckner

May 19, 2018
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.

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Classical CD Review: Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach and Glass and James Brawn’s Beethoven Odyssey vol. 5

May 18, 2018
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Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.

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Concert Review: Masterworks Chorale — Bach to Bach

May 16, 2018
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Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.

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Theater Review: “Elephant” — Truth or Dare

May 16, 2018
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As long as we’re sipping the truth serum wine, the biggest obstacle presented by the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre production is — itself.

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Jazz CD Review: Jeff Denson’s “Outside My Window” —

May 16, 2018
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A listener’s response to this album would largely depend on whether or not the sound of Jeff Denson’s voice and the instrumentation strike a chord.

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Rock Review: The Damned Deliver Damned Good “Evil Spirits”

May 16, 2018
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Even after decades, The Damned is still grandly flying its freak flag.

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