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Book Review: Looking Back, Fondly, on “The Modem World”

March 25, 2022
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This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications.

Jazz Album Review: Danilo Pérez featuring The Global Messengers — Projecting Light in a Dark World

March 24, 2022
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This cooperative music is deliberately international in instrumentation and personnel and theme, proffering its own characteristic, and often quite beautiful, mix of sounds.

Visual Arts Review: “Milton Avery” — The Slow But Steady Growth of an American Master

March 24, 2022
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Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.

Jazz Concert and Album Review: Vincent Peirani and Emile Parisien — Bringing Culture to the Colonies

March 23, 2022
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The communication between Vincent Peirani’s accordion and Emile Parisien’s soprano sax was effortless, empathetic, and flawless.

Visual Art Review: The Enigma of Sol LeWitt

March 23, 2022
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Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints is a compelling opportunity for immersion in an important aspect of the artist’s work

Opera Album Review: “Der ferne Klang” Does Its Thing and Does It Amazingly Well

March 23, 2022
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I am beginning to suspect that Franz Schreker was the most effective of the many semi-forgotten opera composers who were active in the German lands during the first decades of the twentieth century (that is, ones less well known today than Strauss, Berg, and Kurt Weill).

Music Interview: Good News — The Wailin’ Jennys Are Back

March 22, 2022
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All three are singer/songwriters whose individual gifts mesh seamlessly with soaring harmonies and a like-minded empathetic view of the world.

Jazz Album Review: “Arcades” — Beautifully Speculative Sounds

March 22, 2022
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This is free jazz perhaps, but it never sounds frantic, wild, or abandoned.

Theater Review: “Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends” — “This Whole Going Downhill Thing”

March 22, 2022
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Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends is admirable because it takes contemporary theater into fresh territory — the slow paralysis of the body and the demands this decline makes on caregivers.

Television Review: “Bridgerton” — Who Needs the Duke?

March 21, 2022
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Dear reader, do enjoy a second season of Bridgerton’s ornate balls, lush landscapes, and 19th century flirting.

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