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Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part Two — “When the Impossible Really Begins”

April 9, 2020
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Theater is seen as a cleansing illness that sets out to obliterate the illness we blithely accept as health.

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Dance/Movie Review: Heart Throbs — “Ballet Russes”

November 26, 2005
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I enjoyed the movie —- critics from outside the dance world have found Ballet Russes charming, too — but the filmmakers’ real gifts are the oral histories that they collected from these dancers just before it was too late.

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Book Review: “The Final Witness” — Just the Facts

October 23, 2023
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Strangely, Paul Landis makes no acknowledgment of the implications of the evidence he attests to, namely that neither Lee Harvey Oswald nor any other single gunman could have acted alone.

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Arts Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2021 — and Some Disappointments

December 26, 2021
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This list consists of recent music documentaries that I streamed over the past year — a couple of duds as well as the standouts.

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Book Review: “Creating the Jazz Solo” — An Iconoclastic View

March 22, 2019
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Rarely does a book leave me questioning the ways in which I understood, or thought I understood, the construction of some of the most formative solos in jazz history.

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Classical Album Reviews: Petrenko conducts Elgar, Britten’s “Saint Nicolas,” and “Italian Postcards”

December 2, 2020
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One of Vasily Petrenko’s most successful Elgar releases; there’s an edge to the Crouch End Festival Chorus’ performance of Britten’s Saint Nicolas ; Quartetto di Cremona’s new album is nothing if not overflowing with Mediterranean personality

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Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash

January 21, 2020
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We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.

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Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt

January 23, 2017
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Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.

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Book Review/Commentary: Let Us Summon as Much Generosity of Spirit as We Can

August 12, 2025
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To be silent in the face of cruelty is to be complicit. And I refuse to be complicit. Surely we have to recognize that there are differences in taste. But to skewer another writer with such precision and glee? That is beyond the pale, especially in these perilous times.

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Rock Album Preview: The Return of Little Feat — A Revival of the Fittest

April 30, 2025
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Little Feat is on the cusp of a rebirth – again.

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