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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Othello lacks a tragic dimension not because it highlights Othello’s “Otherness,” but because it eschews any vestige of grandeur or nobility.
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Uri Caine’s score about the life and murder of a 19th-century civil rights icon is direct and potent; touching documentation of Richard Pittman’s advocacy for the inventive composer Bernard Hoffer and a demonstration of the sheer musical excellence of Boston Musica Viva; Igor Levit’s keyboard playing is dynamic, precisely articulated, vividly felt, and beautifully voiced.
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With gorgeous, vivid stop-motion animation overseen by co-director Mark Gustafson, this inspired collaborative effort carves its own lane among the many adaptations of the oft-told story.
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This is state-of-the art modern jazz, alternately hard swinging, contemplative, commercial, and abstract.
Read MoreSea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.
Read MoreThe fall is an excellent time to visit the Mount, the splendid home author Edith Wharton built for herself in the Berkshires. The leaves have already begun to turn.
Read MoreOpera Review: Paisiello’s “Le gare generose” — Italians, Quakers, and Slavery in 18th-century Boston
The lively world-premiere recording of Giovanni Paisiello’s Le gare generose proves why the composer was in demand all across Europe.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreAlex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.
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