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The practice of re-using large chunks of an opera for a new plot and new words may sound implausible to us, but in Rossini’s hands the result is delightful and surprisingly coherent.
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This new series will offer ideas for movies and series that have stories or themes at least marginally related to the pandemic we’re all living through.
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The idea of posting this list is to remind people of what has been lost and hope that it stirs us to preserve what we have left.
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Lovers of American music, don’t miss Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition ; Lindberg’s recording of Leonard Bernstein’s first two symphonies lacks a compelling command of the musician’s singular voice; the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra tackles four pieces by Morton Gould.
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Desperate times, desperate measures.
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This was an enormously exciting production of Merchant of Venice, a reminder that theater can be (in fact, must be!) nervy.
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Wall Street is getting a $1.5 trillion bailout (and counting). As usual, the arts, despite being a key economic engine, will not be so lucky.
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This carefully-crafted chamber piece revolves about a woman whose compulsion to eat non-edible things is both fascinating and disturbing.
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Marvelously acted and directed, First Cow is a masterpiece that dramatizes how struggle and adversity are part of the human comedy.
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Arts Commentary: Helping Dance at a Time of Social Distancing
How, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?
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