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Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

May 20, 2018
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

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Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise — Not the New Radiohead

March 6, 2013
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The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

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Theater Review: Wheelock Family Theatre’s “The Prom” — More Than Entertainment

May 26, 2025
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Theater like this is especially crucial at a time of destructive national division: it is explicitly aimed at intergenerational audiences, it takes on issues that confront family and community, and it makes the experience of learning and relearning elemental democratic lessons both fun and communal.

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Jazz CD Review: Luciana Souza’s “Book of Longing” Tells a Compelling Story

September 4, 2018
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With this album, Luciana Souza has created her own indelible “book” of songs that ache and celebrate, muse and regret, dream and mourn.

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Author Interview: Bestselling Novelist Douglas Kennedy Talks About “Five Days”

August 10, 2013
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Author Douglas Kennedy is beginning to generate a considerable readership in this country. He will be reading at the Boston Public Library on August 15 at 6 p.m.

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Visual Arts Preview: “Alpha 60” — A Simple Walk in the Park Becomes a Visual Sci-Fi Adventure

June 16, 2022
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Could there be a more appropriate way to celebrate the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday?

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Arts Remembrance: Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) and Christopher Rouse (1949-2019)

April 5, 2020
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Many of the qualities that mark Penderecki’s best work – exquisite technique, an innate feel for rhythmic athleticism, an ear for dazzling colors and theatrical gestures, an impeccable sense of musical structure, and the affinity for emotional immediacy – are also hallmarks of Rouse’s.

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Film Review: “Hit Man” — We Contain Multitudes

May 22, 2024
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Breezy as “Hit Man” is, there’s a sting to this romance’s tail.

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Book Review: “Art and Faith” — Creating Revelatory Beauty

February 9, 2021
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Art and Faith should be widely read — its delightful wisdom and clarity underlines our culture’s desperate need to make things new.

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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project plays John Corigliano

February 24, 2019
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John Corigliano’s take on goodbyes is, if not exactly bitter, then full of sorrow: few happy memories to be had here.

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