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Visual Arts Review: Ledelle Moe’s “When” — Figures Worthy of Awe

January 24, 2020
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Ledelle Moe’s work is fresh, innovative, and contemporary — yet deeply rooted in a primal humanism that courses through the millennia of every continent and culture.

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Theater Review: “Timon of Athens” — Greed is not Good

January 24, 2020
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Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.

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Theater Review: “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” — Cognitive Play

January 24, 2020
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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes suggests some marvelous possibilities.

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Classical CD Reviews: Ádám Fischer conducts Mahler, Mariss Jansons conducts Rodion Shchedrin & Respighi, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Schumann

January 23, 2020
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Ádám Fischer’s reading of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is breathtakingly clean.

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Arts Remembrance: Homage to Claudio Roditi

January 23, 2020
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Apart from Claudio Roditi’s musical skill, what stood out was his warmth.

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Theater Review: “The Undoing of Prudencia Hart” — Lost in Spaciness

January 21, 2020
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Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.

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Book Review: Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” — A Bemused Candor

January 21, 2020
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What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.

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Book Review: “Were We Awake” — Speculating in the Dark

January 20, 2020
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L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.

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Film Review: “Les Misérables” — Nobody is Safe

January 20, 2020
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Les Misérables invites us to ponder, in real time, how people respond in a chaotic, dangerous situation.

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Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited” — Continuing the Struggle for Civil Rights

January 20, 2020
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In this disc dedicated to black heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Christian McBride insists that everyone must be free if any of us is going to be.

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