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What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
MassOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they’ve never done before.
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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