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Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Sense & Sensibility” — Theatrical Nirvana

December 21, 2017
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All of the pieces – and some of them are quite odd and incongruent – come together in Sense & Sensibility to become one.

Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

Classical CD Reviews: Matthias Goerne’s “The Wagner Project” and Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand

December 20, 2017
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Matthias Goerne offers proof that he is the Wagner baritone of the day. And Thierry Fischer’s understanding of Mahler deserves our admiration.

Television Review: “Wormwood” — Errol Morris’ Brilliant Bricolage

December 20, 2017
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Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.

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.

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