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This week’s poem: Eliot Cardinaux’s “Said Regression.”
Read MorePerformances of such zest and sensitivity deserve to be rewarded with rapt enthusiasm, even love.
Read MoreCockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.
Read MoreNow in its 18th season, the membership of the Worcester Chamber Music Society has remained remarkably consistent, boasting a number of familiar faces from Boston’s chamber music and orchestral scenes.
Read MoreValerie Duff’s polished style is thoughtful and observant, her fluent voice compressed and controlled. She constructs meticulous lines with (to borrow one of her phrases from these pages) a “stonecutter’s precision.”
Read MoreBig band leader Arturo O’Farrill points out that “Santiago Brooklyn Santiago” makes a forceful argument that the embargo between Cuba and the United States should be done away with.
Read MoreIn “Fat Ham,” Black pain and repressed desire are transformed into a celebration of liberation and empowerment — once the villain du jour, the patriarchy, has been dispatched.
Read MoreLess is more in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”.
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Jazz Commentary: Four Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — New Wine in New Bottles
Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.
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