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DocTalk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival — Delicately Retrieving the Past

November 6, 2024
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Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.

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Concert Review: David Cross Band/Beat — A King Crimson Moment

November 5, 2024
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Just weeks apart, two different groups have made their way to Boston on international tours – without Robert Fripp but with his blessing – their shows focusing on a specific era of King Crimson’s existence. 

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Concert Review: The Dresden Dolls and Gogol Bordello Rage Against the Machine

November 5, 2024
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Saturday’s finale of a two-night Roadrunner stand, the Dresden Dolls’ first Boston shows since 2017, raged as a celebration of camaraderie and catharsis.

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Film Review: GlobeDocs 2024 — A Wrap-Up

November 5, 2024
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For its 10th anniversary, the Boston Globe’s documentary festival expanded its cinematic field to a wide variety of genres and subjects.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Manzanita Loop” — And Its Endless Search

November 4, 2024
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Beaux Mendes’ work piques the same interest in us as our information-hunger, set loose from any hope of a ground truth, and the endless searching this provokes.

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Classical Music Album Review: Klaus Mäkelä’s Characterless Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 4-6

November 4, 2024
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The performances on the recording exhibit no conception of Shostakovich’s style – where is this music’s irony and sarcasm, let alone pathos? – not to mention any sense of how to navigate large-scale forms.

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Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

November 4, 2024
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In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

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Visual Arts Review: Together Again? — O’Keeffe and Moore at the MFA

November 3, 2024
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“Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” at the MFA builds a case for two artists that many are inclined to think of as “unlikely bedfellows.” Brava! 

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Book Review: Shannon Bowring’s Compellingly Large Visions of Small-Town Life

November 3, 2024
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Shannon Bowring is a wonderfully wise and compassionate writer, exquisitely alert to the varieties of human experience that exist at the end of the 20th century.

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Classical Album Reviews: Dvorak Symphonies from Atlanta and Prague

November 2, 2024
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Not all of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s ideas about Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony add up, but there is not much to argue with in Czech Philharmonic Orchestra director Semyon Bychkov’s take on Dvorak’s Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies. 

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