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Classical Music Album Reviews: Ravel/Bach and Bruch & Korngold Violin Concertos

June 19, 2025
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Pianist Yeol Eum Son is more than up to the demands of J.S. Bach and Maurice Ravel; violinist Bomsori brings exquisite balances and shimmering sonority to Bruch and Korngold.

Visual Arts Review: “David Wojnarowicz” — A Partial View of an Activist Artist

June 19, 2025
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The artist’s focus on brutality is present in the show, but the anger and homoeroticism that infused so much of his work are missing.

Book Review: “The War of Art” — Waging Creative Defiance

June 19, 2025
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The book provides ample proof that activist artists, when determined, can use their work to influence our thinking in positive ways, and effect change.

Theater Review: “Our Class” — A Powerful Visual History Lesson

June 18, 2025
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The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented production team.

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Gallery of Kings” — Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300

June 17, 2025
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Through story, song, missives, and popular gibes at authority, the Boston Camerata program looked at kings remembered for their great deeds and those commemorated for their bumbling idiocy.

Film Reviews: This Year’s Provincetown Film Festival — Exploding with Queer-Subject Features and Documentaries

June 17, 2025
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This year was the 27th annual festival, and blessed as always by the fairy-dust magical presence of summertime resident John Waters.

Film Review: “Lavender Men” — A Spotlight on Gaybraham Lincoln

June 17, 2025
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Considering the determination of the current administration to send America back to the 19th century (or even earlier, perhaps to the Dark Ages), “Lavender Men” supplies an entertaining — and valuable — history lesson.

Film Review: Dialectical “Materialists”

June 16, 2025
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Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.

Concert Review: Sam Grisman Project and Peter Rowan — Seizing the Moment

June 15, 2025
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There were unscripted song selections whose daring and heart made this concert so much more than a night of old beloved tunes.

Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — Inspired by Nature

June 13, 2025
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Boston Dance Theater is driven by the belief that a community is strengthened by an exchange of ideas.

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