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WATCH CLOSELY: Netflix’s “Pandemic” is Harrowing, Prescient

March 27, 2020
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The sheer breadth of information presented here will, at the very least, raise public awareness by deepening our understanding of how pandemics work and why it is important to prepare for the inevitable.

Arts Remembrance: Terrence McNally — Dramatist and Father of the Serious Contemporary Musical 

March 27, 2020
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The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.

Arts Commentary: Big Art — Big Greed

March 26, 2020
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Members of anti-arts Right are incensed by the stimulus funding going to Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Arts. And they’re right.

Album Review: “Mixing Colours” — The Brothers Eno

March 26, 2020
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Ironically, Mixing Colours is best experienced by taking in its video presentations.

Arts Remembrance: Flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer

March 26, 2020
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Doriot Anthony Dwyer was a virtuoso flutist, one who could coax brightly burnished tones out of the instrument.

Classical CD Reviews: “Clytemnestra,” Max Reger’s “Der Einsiedler,” and Richard Strauss “Lieder”

March 26, 2020
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Soprano Ruby Hughes’ album is fine, well played, sung, and programmed; baritone Christoph Prégardien delivers vocal works by Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Max Reger with warmth; soprano Diana Damrau is in her glorious prime singing the songs of Strauss.

Book Review: “Four Futures” — Surprisingly Relevant ‘Social Science Fiction’

March 25, 2020
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Peter Frase envisions how our current bedeviling social contradictions and economic abuses may play out in the future.

Classical CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Schoenberg, Mariss Jansons conducts Saint-Saëns and Poulenc, and John Wilson conducts Korngold

March 25, 2020
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Isabelle Faust makes Arnold Schoenberg’s thorny Violin Concerto sing; Mariss Jansons lends heft to Saint-Saëns’ Symphony no. 3, and John Wilson continues to be your go-to conductor for Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Book Review: Clive James and the Rewards of Writing Poetry

March 24, 2020
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English writer Ian Shircore’s book-length study gives Clive James’ poems the loving attention they deserve.

Arts Commentary: Behind Closed Doors — Music to Make Love By During a Pandemic

March 24, 2020
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It’s important at this time to keep our relationships going, even as we hunker down in fear behind four walls. Thankfully, “The Ultimate Foreplay List” is here.

It’s important at this time to keep our relationships going, even as we hunker down in fear behind four walls. Thankfully, “The Ultimate Foreplay List” is here.

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