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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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This week’s poem: Joseph Fraser’s “Skyline Park, Arlington”
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The Newport Folk Festival always pulls off unique, unexpected collaborations, while it embraces a head-spinning lineup of diverse genres that reflects its spirit of community.
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For MOMIX’S performance at Jacob’s Pillow, Moses Pendelton assembled a “greatest hits” selection of sixteen vignettes from the troupe’s oeuvre.
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A frenetic, funny, foul-mouthed, and sometimes facile testament to the fact that language matters.
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In support of the release of his album “Orgy of the Damned,” Slash is not just touring; he’s putting on a distinctive concert experience with a positive message.
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Any aficionado of Brazilian music and jazz will find plenty to be delighted by in these three discs.
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“Popular music in America is already so formulated and dumbed-down that the fear of AI making it more trivial is probably beside the point.”
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A belated appreciation of one of 2023’s most interesting releases – this Grammy-winning “compendium” may not be a strongly unified work, but its individual parts are eloquent residents of the Place Between classical and jazz.
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A relaxed, humane kindness shines through this staging of Shakespeare’s hymn to reconciliation.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler