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WATCH CLOSELY: “El Camino” — Epilogue for an Anti-Hero

October 15, 2019
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Like Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.

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Concert Review: An Uneven Aviv Quartet at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College

December 13, 2011
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As nicely played as the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky were, I left feeling that there was something distinctly anticlimactic about the Aviv Quartet’s programming choices. I would much rather have heard the Erwin Schulhoff close the evening –- or at least heard it sandwiched between the Romantic selections.

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Film Review: “Mad God” – God’s in His Heaven, All’s Forsaken With the World

January 24, 2022
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Think Ray Harryhausen by way of the Quay brothers or Jan Švankmajer and you’ll have a vague sense of the sort of magnificent black magic that animatesMad God.

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Author Interview: Kevin Mattson on a Genuine Culture War — Punks versus Reagan

March 20, 2021
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The real culture war in 1980s America was waged by young people who were trying to create their own culture and jealously rejected corporate culture along the way.

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Fuse Dance Review: The Extraordinary Ritual Remix of “Moses(es)”

April 2, 2015
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Moses(es) has many layers of metaphor and suggestion, but the surface is always visually intriguing, musically imaginative

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Theater Review: “The Thanksgiving Play” — The Perils of “Wokeness”

November 2, 2019
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When confronted with a seemingly intractable quandary, playwright Larissa FastHorse — and her characters — take the easy way out.

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Classical CD Reviews: Hindemith Orchestral Works and Symphonic Psalms

January 21, 2018
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Conductor Marek Janowski’s Hindemith is all vigor and athleticism; Tenebrae’s Symphonic Psalms & Prayers is captivating.

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Theater Review: Touring “Girl From the North Country” – A Slow, Serious Musical set to the Bob Dylan Catalog

March 15, 2024
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Bob Dylan’s music has rarely been more heartbreaking, his poetic storytelling rarely more beguiling, and the singing never less nasal.

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Dance Review: The Mark Morris Dance Group Presents “The Look of Love”

July 4, 2023
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Given the infectious and embracing music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Mark Morris’s The Look of Love will most likely be regarded as among his most accessible and popular dances.

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Jazz Album Review: Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch’s Winning “The Song Is You” — Suffused With Tact and Grace

August 29, 2022
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The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.

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