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BBC’s The Repair Shop is about hard work and mending battered psyches.
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The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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I will miss Chilling Adventures of Sabrina more than I may care to admit.
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Occasional slip-ups shouldn’t obscure appreciation of Kid Cudi’s fantastic vocal performance.
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Sir Adrian Boult certainly had his ups and downs as a conductor, but these performances showcase him largely at his best.
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Lovers of Baroque opera will want to scoop this one up quickly. I certainly have more respect and affection for Leonardo Vinci, now that I’ve come to know several of his operas.
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Mary-Beth Hughes’s penetrating glimpses into the depths of her characters’ lives make us more deeply aware of our own.
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The sonic thumbprint of MF DOOM will live eternally in the forensics of hip-hop DNA and underground culture as a whole.
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Music fans who miss, or missed, the long party that was mainstream music in the mid-’80s will be skillfully taken back to fast times in Can’t Slow Down.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler