Month: March 2013

Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

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Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise — Not the New Radiohead

March 6, 2013
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The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

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Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2013

March 4, 2013
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The month’s standouts include Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.

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Concert Review: Pianist Jeremy Denk — Probing Intelligence and Wit

March 4, 2013
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Pianist Jeremy Denk wields a large artillery of dynamics and colors and it served him well in this performance.

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Classical Music Interview: Playing by Heart — The Chiara String Quartet

March 3, 2013
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Playing by heart with these three incredible people is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done as a musician, and I look forward to many more years of doing this with the Chiara Quartet. — Gregory Beaver of the Chiara String Quartet

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Fuse Theater Review: The Indiscreet Indifference of the Bourgeoisie

March 2, 2013
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Both authors generate humor out of the casual inhumanity of the bourgeoise, dramatizing how the farce of middle class success distorts its victors and victims.

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Short Fuse: Talking the “Mind and Cosmos” Blues

March 1, 2013
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Thomas Nagel: Has he penned a rallying cry for those who have no taste for much science in the first place?

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Classical Music Sampler: March 2013

March 1, 2013
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March is a month to hear amazing pianists – Jeremy Denk, George Li, Charlie Albright, Jeffrey Swann, Wu Han, and Lydia Artymiw – as well as inspiring choruses and unusual chamber music

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Coming Attractions in Film: March 2013

March 1, 2013
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The pre-festival film season features free screenings, a selection of international cinemas, many great documentary films, and a weekend of feminist films.

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