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The Henry Purcell Society proves that playing mad can be a lot of fun.
We are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.
These superbly produced — and sung, played, and conducted — holiday music albums are perfect stocking stuffers.
Michael Tilson Thomas delivers a towering Ives Fourth; pianist Conrad Tao’s American Rage is hard-edged and defiant, but also poignant and stirring; Gianandrea Noseda’s Shostakovich Fourth is ferocious.
What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.
A script with this many characters buzzing about demands a strong cast — fortunately, Hub Theatre’s terrific ensemble is more than up to the task.
Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.
A noteworthy recording of Ernst von Dohnányi’s Symphony no. 1; as usual, Harry Christophers and the Handel & Haydn Society play Haydn with their customary elegance and character; a celebration of British composer Eric Coates – his music’s impossibly fresh tunefulness, striking progressions, and vividly idiomatic orchestrations.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.
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