Review
There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
Musically, everything clicked in Boston Musica Viva’s annual Family Concert.
Throughout the night, CpM music director Jamie Kirsch kept tempos lively and never lost sight of the overarching shape of each of the evening’s big pieces.
Adrianne Krstansky, a marvelous actress, understandably exhibits signs of the strain of having to carry the entire production on her shoulders.
What a treat to see choreographers of different generations concentrating on ballet itself and asking the audience to appreciate what ballet can do.
Dramatist Rajiv Joseph probes the gentle sides of masculinity as well as the intertwined power of beauty and terror.
Max Bruch’s music is smart, strong, crafty, and, often, quite endearing.
There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.
Bob Brookmeyer’s great contribution was to make it seem as though anything is possible — and permissible –in the big band context.
Dedham native and Boston University graduate Ryan H. Walsh wanted to learn more about the local connections to what he calls his “favorite album of all time.”
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