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With an artist as focused and sharp as Danilo Pérez as its musical director, Jazz 100 makes you sit up straight and hang on every note.
“Conservatism was his perspective, but William F. Buckley was really interested in having the other side on and having real discussions.”
The Murder of Sonny Liston is an absorbing, albeit speculative, attempt at addressing the mystery that died with the man.
In this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.
“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”
This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don’t quite recognize.
This was a fascinating program conducted by someone that the BSO will hopefully put (firmly) into their rotation of distinguished guest conductors.
“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
A Man Called Ove‘s darkness and humor are balanced artfully, a merit one often sees in Scandinavian film.
Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One