Review
Heard live, pianist Evgeny Kissin offers the kind of rare, heart-altering listening experiences that give one hope for our woefully fractured world.
“Rust” is an old-school Western with some fine performances, a violent edge, and a lot of heart.
An independent film festival presents works that expose audiences to diverse voices, to alternative political and social points of view, and to different ways of understanding the world.
After more than a quarter century, with an impressive new venue serving as a platform, Radius Ensemble continues to expand its musical reach.
All of the gritty challenges for today’s ballet companies are touched on in “Étoile”, including financial troubles, union strikes, rapaciously controlling donors, jealous, egomaniacal dancers, and more bumps in the road.
Every subject in Jim Dine’s richly rendered work seems to edge towards something other than itself, deeper and more personal.
The Independent Film Festival Boston has been a major showcase for short films from New England and beyond. Here’s a roundup of one of this year’s programs, “Shorts Dartmouth: Narrative” (collections are named after streets in the Back Bay). There’s not a weak one in the five-film bunch.
Perhaps “Izipho Zam (My Gifts)” might have become as well known as Pharoah Sanders’s “Karma” — if Impulse! rather than the tiny cooperative label Strata-East had recorded it.
The emphasis of the B&P troupe has become increasingly apocalyptic: the struggle we are engaged in is for nothing less than the preservation of our planet, and for the preservation of our individual — and collective ––hearts and minds.
While he paints, Stanley Whitney listens to and is inspired by jazz. Miles Davis’s album “Bitches Brew” is his constant companion in the studio.
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