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Opera Review: “The Dragon of Wantley” — Knight Kicks Dragon in the Arse

March 8, 2023
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More popular than The Beggar’s Opera, J. F. Lampe’s goofy opera of 1737 receives its first complete recording, and the performance is splendidly, subtly humorous.

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Classical Concert Review: Pianist Igor Levit — A Beethoven Recital to Remember

March 7, 2023
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More proof that, with pianist Igor Levit, Beethoven had found new interpreter, not only worthy, but important.

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Classical Music Album Review: Beatrice Rana plays Schumann

March 7, 2023
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Pianist Beatrice Rana, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yanick Nézet-Séguin, plays the daylights out of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.

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Film Review: Seoul Mates

March 7, 2023
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In this complex and enigmatic film, director Davy Chou has skillfully conjured up both a sense of time’s passage and a mood of timelessness.

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Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble — Animated by The Bard

March 7, 2023
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Chamber music under Shakespeare’s spell is responsible for one of the high points of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s current season.

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Book Review: “All Sorts of Lives” — Katherine Mansfield, A Magician With Words

March 6, 2023
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We can only wonder what Katherine Mansfield might have given us had she lived a normal life span, yet we should cherish what we have, as Claire Harman has done so beautifully.

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Theater Review: “The Wife of Willesden” — Pleasantly Bawdy

March 6, 2023
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If the production sends at least some of the audience members back to the magnificent poetry of The Canterbury Tales, it would have done a mitzvah.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The New Geometry of Boston’s Skyline

March 5, 2023
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Two campus structures and one downtown office building speak a new visual language.

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Rock Remembrance: David Lindley, A Splendidly Cavalier Spirit

March 4, 2023
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Electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, saz, oud, Hawaiian guitar, lap steel, fiddle, cittern; if it could be plucked, strummed or bowed, odds are Mr. Dave played it and played it well.

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Jazz Remembrance: Tribute to Wayne Shorter

March 4, 2023
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One of the true masters of jazz, Wayne Shorter, passed away during the early hours of March 2. Our writers quickly gathered to express their appreciations of Shorter’s innovations and his long life of constant creativity.

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