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This arch-New Englander, descendant of Puritans, is also “the American who resists branding, who will not be commodified.”
Read MoreIf only “Becoming a Man”‘s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.
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Read MoreThe weight of the masterpiece on the other side of the kitchen door is ever-present, and it casts a smothering shadow on this lighter drama.
Read MoreMass in D was Ethel Smyth’s first large-scale score and, according to Cappella Clausura conductor Amelia LeClair, the composition expressed her yearning for hope and redemption.
Read MoreEven without international-caliber singers and players, Giovanni Piaisello’s “Amor vendicato” works much magic.
Read MoreThe late Friederike Mayröcker’s über-recognizable style has become a brand, logoed by certain objects: violets, lilacs, birds
Read More“Drums & Demons” is at times frustratingly unclear on dates, but its research is comprehensive about the brilliant career and disasterous end of drummer Jim Gordon.
Read MoreA powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.
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Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.
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