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A wrap-up of the London Film Festival that focuses on two favorites, Inland and The Store.
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Pianist John Wilson, like his mentor Michael Tilson Thomas, is a servant of the music rather than its dictator and he knows both when and how to step back and let it speak.
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I know no more thoughtful disquisition, for the opera stage, on basic questions of life, death, war, love, power, and resistance.
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Love, anger, frustration, hope, sadness, lullabies — they are all here through movement that is at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced and propulsive.
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English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.
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As the composer moves from youth to middle age, Thomas Adès is unique among his contemporaries for his singular embrace of melody, harmony, and form.
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The Pixies could be anthemic, snarky, jaunty, or forlorn as they chose, which meant they were never boring.
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This collection, Newvelle Records’ first series release in two years, features original compositions by Elan Mehler, Michael Blake, Dave Liebman, and Nadje Noordhuis.
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This is a terrific start for a series that may live up to the promise of The Twilight Zone: it will take you “on a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”
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In his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger