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Reflections and Echoes: Colin Carr Plays the Complete Bach Cello Suites

August 1, 2018
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Overall, this was classy cello playing. Colin Carr relied on, and brought out, the inherent architecture of the Bach suites.

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Film Commentary: Provincetown International Film Festival Gets Things Almost Right in Terms of Diversity

July 31, 2018
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Programming can make a difference in who feels invited to the table, and Provincetown International Film Festival has made it clear that diversity—especially supporting the work of female-identified filmmakers—is a top priority.

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Theater Review: CSC’s “Richard III” — Divine Devilry

July 31, 2018
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Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Richard III is a deft, gripping version of Shakespeare’s vision of malevolence, staged with verve and vision.

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Book Review: “On The Couch” — A Beautiful Visual Tour

July 30, 2018
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On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.

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Film Review: “Custody” — When Home Isn’t Safe

July 29, 2018
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Viewers who have endured abusive domestic family situations may find their throats swelling, their hearts thudding, and their hands shaking.

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Jazz CD Review: Vocalist Allegra Levy — Moonstruck

July 29, 2018
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Vocalist Allegra Levy is at her strongest when purveying certain specific moods — melancholy, playful, even lightly ironic.

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Jazz CD Review: Ronnie Cuber — “Live at Montmartre”

July 28, 2018
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Ronnie Cuber makes the high-speed acceleration sound lyrical as well as virtuosic; the band obliges with solos that come off as much more than your standard bop band running the changes.

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Streaming Docs: A Super-Deluxe Midsummer Night’s Edition, 2018

July 28, 2018
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Take a break from the summer heat to catch up on the best documentaries streaming on digital platforms.

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Theater Review: “Creditors” — A Memorable Staging of a Classic

July 28, 2018
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August Strindberg’s Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.

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Visual Arts Review: “Frederic Church — A Painter’s Pilgrimage”

July 27, 2018
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To modern sensibilities, Frederic Edwin Church’s field sketches and early studies, with their virtuoso spontaneity and unmediated naturalism, may have more appeal than his epic paintings.

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