Month: May 2013
In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.
Read MoreRespect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum and missed in the old one.
Read MoreSomething emotional (perhaps even passionate) whirls underneath the well-worn modernist pieties of “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes,” though not to the point of disrupting the daffy routine.
Read MoreThere is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.
Read MoreWith the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.
Read More“A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” is spectacular.
Read MoreFrederic Franklin was the repository of much of the tradition of 20th century ballet, and he carried on these values by personifying the essence of the genre.
Read MoreMay is inevitably one of the busiest times of year on the Latin, gospel, and R&B concert calendars as promoters hold Mother’s Day’s events and try to lure audiences indoors one last time before the start of summer.
Read MoreWhile reading Andre Maurois’ “Climates” you feel your world narrowing in uncomfortable ways.
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Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shop Front in Harvard Square