Review
Elgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
No one I know is neutral about this kind of material and I was pleased to watch a play that did not shrink from its many complexities and challenges.
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Witch‘s brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..
Sunday afternoon’s hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.
This compact documentary presents a poignant picture of the intersection of segregation, enlightenment, and failure.
This exhibition at the MFA gives us as chance to walk about a delightful island in the wide sea of Picasso works.
Ruth Lepson’s method in these poems is to encourage us listen as carefully as she does.
The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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