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Elgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
No one I know is neutral about this kind of material and I was pleased to watch a play that did not shrink from its many complexities and challenges.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Witch‘s brief jolts of violence seem perfectly calibrated to knock us out of our seats..
Sunday afternoon’s hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.
This compact documentary presents a poignant picture of the intersection of segregation, enlightenment, and failure.
This exhibition at the MFA gives us as chance to walk about a delightful island in the wide sea of Picasso works.
An October 2016 opening that could fill some of the gaps created by the shuttering of Johnny D’s next month.
Ruth Lepson’s method in these poems is to encourage us listen as carefully as she does.

Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95