Month: October 2013
Discovery Ensemble is one of Boston’s great musical treasures, a group that consistently reminds us not only that the music they play is important, but why that’s the case to begin with.
Read MoreAn evening of risk that explores the edges of physical and emotional risk in dances scored to everything from Kurt Weill to a kitchen table conversation.
Read MoreDespite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.
Read MoreTwo days after pianist Yuja Wang’s concert, and, sadly, what I remember best are the two skimpy dresses she wore.
Read MoreWith 12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen, the brilliant British director of HUNGER and SHAME, has probably created the first masterpiece of the new black cinema.
Read MoreiIf we lift the fog hovering over the War in Vietnam what we find a story nearly unknown in the West: far from devising and launching the Tet Offensive, Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap consistently and adamantly opposed it.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreActors’ Shakespeare Project’s production is a fine start to the company’s tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement — for this company, story and the actor’s craft trump directorial conceits.
Read MoreNew discs from Harmonia Mundi: One explores the music of Pulitzer prize-winner Kevin Puts, the other focuses on the songs of Hanns Eisler, and it is one of the most fascinating albums to come from any label so far this year.
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