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Colorful, characterful, and full of worldly wisdom, The Last Sorcerer—by a skilled and imaginative composer, to a text by the great Russian novelist— receives a superb world-premiere recording, with Met mezzo Jamie Barton and bass-baritone Eric Owens.
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Tony Kushner attempts a re-write of his first professional play. The results are decidedly mixed.
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The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.
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Terry Tempest Williams thinks that we must seize opportunities to save an increasingly endangered world — we don’t have a choice to feel powerless against the forces that seek to exploit and destroy the beauty of life on this planet.
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Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.
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“People love a story, they always have, and always will, and stories are an essential ingredient in this folk music revival, which started sometime in the early ’50s.”
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The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s first appearance of the season presented canonical selections without a hint of complacency or apathy.
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Critical Commentary: A Few Thoughts about John Simon
Few critics proclaimed that the emperor was naked as a jaybird with as much savvy panache.
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