Review
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra don’t do right by Berlioz.
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
American String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.
This is one of the year’s most heartwarming films; it is not sentimental, but projects a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.

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