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This wholly original period piece crackles with energy, humor, and pathos.
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Beethoven never left Europe. But he could have. And the possibility that he might have visited Boston is the basis of Paul Griffiths’ touching, witty, and thought-provoking new novel.
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As sure as “the crow/Makes wing to the rooky wood,” Mrs. Macbeth is going to fall tragically short when it comes to being an inspirational role model for marginalized females everywhere.
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Halka struts its stuff, impressively, in this new recording with an all-Polish cast conducted by internationally renowned Gabriel Chmura.
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BLKS is a bouncing, romping, profanity-laced, and sex-filled roller coaster — but it also has an important message for those who are not Black femme sisters
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Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony have ways of digging into the music and providing new perspectives on it such that their recordings are, by and large, can’t-miss events.
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May the Boston Symphony – which just concluded its annual weekend celebrating the music of Black composers by shunting them off on their own, away from Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Beethoven, and Friends – take note: this is how it should be done.
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“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”
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This portrait of Princess Diana interweaves facts with fantasies to create an impressionistic profile of a troubled woman trapped in a golden cage.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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