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Pianist Beatrice Rana has a particular talent for building a line in ways that are both exactingly dynamic and robustly emotional.
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Andris Nelsons has a fine feel for colorful musical canvases, a talent once again displayed in performances of Thierry Escaich’s Cello Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.
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Few conductors in Boston have a feel for late Mahler the way Benjamin Zander does.
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Beef‘s reflection on today’s growing outrage and extremism reveals a lot about class and inequality.
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Ukrainian writer, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets’ diary blends the visceral with the mundane, showing just how quickly dread replaces everyday life.
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This award-winning documentary offers precious glimpses of what music, or artistic activity, can mean in the life of a highly talented individual.
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The combined concert and gallery experience made one reconsider old clichés — E.M. Forster’s advice that art “only connect” took on an amplified resonance.
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I’ve always admired Bob Dylan’s resolute reluctance to repeat himself, artistically or otherwise. The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments reminds us how obsessive that aesthetic restlessness really is.
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to poet, novelist, and essayist Joshua Whitehead about his essay collection “Making Love With the Land.”
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Arts Remembrance: Visiting the Birthplace of the King
Our last Mississippi destination was a major reason for my trip South. I told Bob I wanted to see the boyhood home of Elvis Presley in the small town of Tupelo, the singer’s Bethlehem.
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