Review
Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
There was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
RUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience with thrills, it can also imply human relationships.
In an architectural sense, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute is too quiet a visual statement.
Given that these two virtuoso pianists were in a jubilant, hometown mood, this was a concert that could hardly fail to please.
The strong connections between Andy Warhol’s early drawings and his later Pop-pieces become clear as you walk through the exhibition.
Despite the well-intentioned efforts of the cast, Eli Wiesel’s words were lost in space.
No Pier Pressure is Brian Wilson’s 11th solo album and it shows little diminution of his still-prodigious talents.
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