Month: August 2016

Book Review: “My Marriage” — An Extraordinary Rediscovery

August 12, 2016
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Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.

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Film Review: “Florence Foster Jenkins” — Delusions of Grandeur

August 12, 2016
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Stephen Frears balances laughs with a smattering of poignant scenes, a broad, see-sawing approach that will appeal to American audiences.

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Music Review: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood – Global Adoration

August 11, 2016
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If there is such a thing as world music, this is it.

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Music Interview: Talking to Organist Dr. Lonnie Smith — Soul-Jazz Legend

August 11, 2016
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Jazz organ pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to the Rockport Jazz Festival.

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Film Review: Director Rouben Mamoulian, Reconsidered. Starting with “Applause”

August 10, 2016
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Mamoulian’s Applause is an opportunity to experience the first leg of the director’s ascent on his Hollywood roller coaster.

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Visual Arts Review: Unexpectedly Full — MASS MoCA’s “The Man in the Empty Space”

August 10, 2016
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It took some time, but the stunning synergy of Richard Nonas’ work began to reveal itself.

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Stage Review: “Songs for a New World” — In the Key of Passion

August 9, 2016
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Summer theater musicals often accentuate the frivolous, but the GSC production of Songs for a New World demands more.

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Jazz Preview: The Rockport Jazz Festival (and Summer Gala) — Dedicated to Building an Audience for Jazz

August 8, 2016
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Shalin Liu Becomes a Jazz Destination: Wynton Marsalis Headlines the Rockport Music Summer Gala fundraiser.

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Book Review: “Smedley’s Secret Guide to Literature” — Teenage Lit-Land

August 8, 2016
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This savvy, witty, and casually erudite novella proves that when it comes portraying adolescence in fiction the less sentimentality the better.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI — Multiculturalism, Inspired

August 6, 2016
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This acrobatic physicality doesn’t come off as a test of testosterone or showboating.

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