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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Haydn, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky

December 1, 2015
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Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.

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Concert Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band — Still Growing

October 7, 2024
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Tedeschi Trucks Band demonstrated the difference between actively engaging in a musical tradition versus paying tribute to it.

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Opera Album Review: Gluck’s Final Opera Finally Steps into the Spotlight via a Superb New Recording

March 13, 2024
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Rejected in Gluck’s time because it lacked dramatic thrust, today “Écho and Narcissus” proves to be a candy-box of delights.

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Book Review: “But God Made Him a Poet: John Ford” — An Essential Book on a World-Class American Director

May 18, 2023
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What makes Scout Tafoya’s book a radical departure from earlier studies is his in-your-face challenges to John Ford’s character and his racial politics.

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Book Review: Film Director Preston Sturges — The Reluctant Auteur

February 6, 2023
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This incisive, compelling, and spirited analysis of the screwball maestro’s life and oeuvre illuminates the art of an overlooked genius.

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Arts Commentary: COVID-19 and the Desperation of Dumping Art

April 13, 2020
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There’s a story yet to be written about art dumping; theater and dance dumping; even film and TV dumping now that live performance and production of all kinds has shut down.

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Book Review: Refugee Scholars — “Well Worth Saving”

December 10, 2019
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This is a carefully-researched book of far more than academic interest.

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Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

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Book Review: The Humanist Cinema of Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-hsien — Nothing But the Essential

October 5, 2014
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An exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.

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Fuse Concert Review: Monadnock Music’s Season Finale — The Stuff of Inspiration

August 18, 2014
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Things are going well with Monadnock Music: before Saturday’s concert kicked off, managing director Christopher Sink announced that the festival had cleared its financial debts as it heads into next year’s 50th anniversary season.

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