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Add these four remastered Ray Charles albums to your collection and remind yourself what the real thing sounds like when it finally comes along.
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“Fun Home”‘s relevance not only lies in how it flawlessly interweaves three storylines that revolve around the same character, but how it dramatizes, with grace, humor, and pathos, a familiar human struggle — looking at our parents through adult eyes.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.
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On Christmas Night is a welcome alternative to the inescapable flood of tiresome holiday songs currently assaulting us from radios and shopping mall sound systems.
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From the start, “Either/Orchestra” was a nice pun but, with Russ Gershon at the helm, the arrangements were never this or that, but rather this and that.
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With youthful vigor, Yo-Yo Ma performed the complete Bach Cello Suites, intermixing the music with stories of personal success, wishes for future generations, and gratitude for all those who make the Commonwealth function.
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The elements of “Urban Nutcracker” have remained the same over the decades: a mix of classical, street, and global dance genres, buoyed by a medley featuring Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington’s take on Tchaikovsky’s classic score.
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This week’s poem: Tanya Larkin’s “Alien Life, an Ars Poetica”
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard
One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.
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