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Theater Review: “Trouble in Mind” — Taking a Stand Backstage

January 21, 2024
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Set in New York in the mid-’50s, “Trouble in Mind” is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.

Opera Album Review: A One-Hit Wonder Hits Another One Out of the Park

May 8, 2023
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A marvelous first recording of a highly engaging opera by Baroque composer Bernardo Pasquini, known until recently for a single piece: “The Cuckoo.”

Book Review: #ClassicalMusicSoWhite? — How It Got That Way and What to Do About It

January 3, 2022
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Joseph Horowitz’s short, punchy, well-sourced, and compulsively readable book argues for bringing back the forgotten works of important Black composers.

Short Fuse Book Review: “Zealot” — Jesus as Jewish Peasant and Revolutionary

August 14, 2013
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I am a secular Jew who can’t but welcome Zealot‘s conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people and its traditions in favor of Roman power.

Jazz Album Review: “Artemis” — Inter-generational Jazz That Expands the Tradition

September 23, 2020
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This is state-of-the art modern jazz, alternately hard swinging, contemplative, commercial, and abstract.

Film Review: “Dunkirk” — An Epic Celebration of the Communal Spirit

July 21, 2017
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Dunkirk is a rousing testament to how common people, when called, can unite against adversity.

Television Review: “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” — As Upsetting as it is Fascinating

February 10, 2021
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel makes for a gripping watch, one of Netflix’s finest true crime documentary series.

Album Roundup: Adventurous Solo Performances from Jazz Pianists

December 6, 2021
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Solo performance is still a way ahead for jazz pianists, judging from four CDs released in 2021.

Theater Review: “She Kills Monsters” — A Delightful Celebration of Geekery

April 18, 2013
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“She Kills Monsters” provides a constant stream of creative, amusing, and outrageous moments.

Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

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