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CD recordings keep bringing us unexpected treasures, including chamber works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Samuel Adler, and the (by turns) exquisite and powerful opera Armida by Mozart’s contemporary — who was not his murderer — Antonio Salieri.
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Can somebody tell me, tell me please, why there’s suddenly such a profusion, a torrent… almost a glut, of significant art history books entering the marketplace right about now? Read More
This album is a remarkably mature effort. The Weeknd reflects on his long career while expanding on his earlier accomplishments.
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The first three films I saw at the Sundance Film Festival were very high-profile premieres.
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The primary interest of Reframed isn’t film history; it is revisionist social statement, and a new twist on the celebrity documentary: star bio-cum-feminist essay.
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As We See It is a humorous as well as heart-wrenching look at the realities of living with autism.
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Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.
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In Home Reading Service the literary and the illiterate rub shoulders, and we are given a vision of people tentatively emerging from behind walls.
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Belle didn’t quite make my heart sing, but it’s a nice change of pace to see a film that treats the internet as a place that can bring people together, not merely a cut-throat Thunder Dome of clashing egos and verbal slap fights.
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Arts Commentary: Separating the Maker from the Made, the Doer from the Doing
It is natural to believe that there is (or should be) a close connection between the personality and the work.
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