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Dance Review: Assorted Nuts

December 19, 2017
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One thing the traditional Nutcracker doesn’t do is funny, though it can be charming and even amusing.

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 2: Jurowski’s Tchaikovsky Symphonies, Strauss in St. Petersburg, Jasper Quartet’s “Unbound,” Walton Symphonies, and Howard Hersh’s Dancing at the Pink House

December 19, 2017
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Highlights include an excellent Tchaikovsky symphony cycle in modern sound and one of the year’s best chamber-music albums.

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

December 18, 2017
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Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

Concert Review: DakhaBrakha — Music of Ecstatic Energy

December 15, 2017
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The members of DakhaBrakha have created something uniquely their own — “folk-punk.”

Concert Review: Singer Jamie Barton Makes No Ordinary Debut

December 15, 2017
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What is surprising is that, along with the extraordinary power of her voice, Jamie Barton’s luminous smile won me over before she sang a note.

Visual Arts Review: Leonard Cohen — Une Breche En Toute Chose/A Crack in Everything

December 15, 2017
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This ingenious and expansive multi-media museum production will please fans of Leonard Cohen’s art and those new to his artistry.

Poetry Review: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry — Revisited

December 14, 2017
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Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

Poetry Review: “A Word For It” — Poetry, From out of the Dictionary

December 14, 2017
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Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.

Book Review: “The Story of Hebrew” — A Surprise Comeback

December 14, 2017
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I cannot recall reading any book about Jewish history that contains so many “Aha!” moments.

Film Review: “The Other Side of Hope” — Despair Begets Compassion

December 13, 2017
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This short film exudes a lighthearted, breezy energy that belies the seriousness of its subject matter.

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