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Book Review: #ClassicalMusicSoWhite? — How It Got That Way and What to Do About It

January 3, 2022
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Joseph Horowitz’s short, punchy, well-sourced, and compulsively readable book argues for bringing back the forgotten works of important Black composers.

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Special Feature: Quotes for the New Year

January 2, 2022
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Some quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

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Jazz Album Review: “2 Blues for Cecil” — Beautifully Out of the Box

January 1, 2022
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The trio shares Cecil Taylor’s love of rational freedom and adventure, but it doesn’t try to reproduce the pianist’s rip-roaring intensity.

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Film Review: “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” — Satiric Fury, with a Dry Midwestern Chuckle

January 1, 2022
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The documentary supplies plenty of deserved admiration for its haggard but gentle subject, but it doesn’t tell us enough about the enduring value of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.

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Film Review: Tracking the Snow Leopard — “The Velvet Queen”

December 31, 2021
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The Velvet Queen, elegantly directed by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, is a vivid chronicle of an arduous journey, old-fashioned but visually high-tech.

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Album Review: Arca — Getting Her KICKS

December 31, 2021
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The Kick album cycle drives home the essence of Arca’s musical vision: constant, relentless transformation.

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Theater Review: “The Christmas Revels 2021” — As Usual, Rising in Song

December 31, 2021
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Once again,under challenging circumstances, the Revels cast and crew has pulled off a rousing good show.

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Arts Feature: Favorite Stage Productions of 2021

December 30, 2021
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year mangled by COVID.

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Arts Feature: Musicians We Lost in 2021

December 30, 2021
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Roll calls of some of the notable musicians who passed away this year.

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The 2021 Jazz Critics Poll: Only the Best

December 29, 2021
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Jazz isn’t an orthodoxy, a religion, a form of faith healing, or a tribal rite — you don’t have to be in the room with it the moment it happens to reap its benefits.

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