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Opera Album Review: “Circé,” A Big Hit from the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, Now Enchantingly Recorded

May 13, 2024
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The BEMF performed the work in July 2023 in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, to enormous enthusiasm.

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Classical Music Album Review: Mendelssohn’s Complete Symphonies

May 13, 2024
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The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich recording of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies doesn’t cast the composer as a radical, but the effort highlights the strengths of his music and finds ways to put distinctive interpretive stamps on several of these scores.

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Visual Arts Review: A New Fashion Statement from the MFA — Consumer Dreaming and Catwalk Preening

May 12, 2024
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This midsized MFA project is a solid bid for summer foot traffic from the fashionista demographic.

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Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, Intertwined

May 12, 2024
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In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.

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Concert Review: Marc-André Hamelin plays Ives, Hamelin, Schumann, and Ravel

May 11, 2024
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Pianist Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated a total command and control of his materials.

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Film Review: “Evil Does Not Exist” — A Slow-Mo Eco Drama

May 11, 2024
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film is consciously frozen paced to the point of parody.

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Film Review: “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Respecting Simian History

May 10, 2024
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“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Think “I, Claudius” with monkeys, by way of “Lord of the Rings” and “The Searchers.”

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Book Review: “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis”

May 10, 2024
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The history of U.S. policy on immigration might charitably be described as shameful.

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Theater Interview: Playwright and Director Lydia R. Diamond on “Toni Stone”

May 10, 2024
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“I believe folks coming to the theater will have a great time, they’ll learn about the Negro leagues and about a phenomenal woman.”

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Film Review: “Film Is Dead. Long Live Film!” Explores a Fascinating Cinematic Subculture

May 9, 2024
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This powerful documentary is a paean to what was once thought to be the immortal impact of cinema and television, a thoughtful commentary on life’s richness — and its inevitable impermanence.

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