Review

Book Review: “American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank”

December 2, 2017
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Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.

Concert Review: Bermel, Prokofiev, and Strauss at Symphony Hall

December 2, 2017
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The BSO’s performance of the Alpine Symphony had purpose and direction.

Theater Review: “Julius Caesar” — Attacked with Vigor

December 1, 2017
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Probably as it should be for a group called the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the performances in Julius Caesar are the thing.

Classical CD Reviews: Leonard Bernstein’s Complete “Piano Music” and Seong-Jin Cho’s “Debussy”

November 29, 2017
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Leann Osterkamp’s playing is rhythmically alive and sympathetic to Leonard Bernstein’s style; Seong-Jin Cho shows that he is an important pianist to watch.

Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 28, 2017
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The BPYO is as responsive, confident, technically skilled, and emotionally expressive an orchestra as they come.

Film Review: “God’s Own Country” — Love on the Dales

November 27, 2017
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I enjoyed God’s Own Country for its realistic style and its unflinching vision of intimacy.

Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure

November 27, 2017
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Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.

Visual Arts Review: “Soft Thresholds” — Room With a View, and an Elephant

November 24, 2017
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Soft Thresholds is about opening up physical boundaries: an elephant village is one of a number of the firm’s marvelous examples of this commitment.

Film Commentary: The Carthage Film Festival

November 21, 2017
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Like going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?

Theater Review: “Incognito” — Mapping the Brain

November 19, 2017
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What we don’t know about the brain and the heart drives this at times unwieldy, yet ultimately satisfying, theatrical work.

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