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What seems remarkable here is the way that trumpeter Tomasz Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges, including flickers of wit, with the other members of the quartet.
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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy’s debut CD is breathtaking, released a few months after the pair’s acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall earlier this year.
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It has been nearly 20 years, but Third Coast Percussion has managed to retain its uncanny freshness and vitality.
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The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival was predictably celebrity-heavy and substance-light. Yet between the cracks, there were things well worth seeing.
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The documentaries “War Game” and “Devo” take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.
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The creators of “Gatsby” have fashioned some inventive ways to make the story seem more contemporary. None of that, however, seems enough to justify the enormous amount of energy and talent that was expended in this production.
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A trio of Latin-themed jazz albums that range from the best of the year to an uneven debut effort.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Four players bridged divergent worlds and styles from bluegrass and jazz to Indian and Western classical music while taking virtually no time to lock in together.
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This is not a dry, academic look at Thom Gunn’s life: the biographer supplies a loving — though at times unflinchingly honest — view of the self-punishing poet.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler