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Classical CD Reviews: Birringer Duo’s “Lifelines,” Steve Reich’s “Drumming,” and Liza Stepanova’s “Tones and Colors”

April 30, 2018
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The Birringer Duo’s disc is a terrific, engaging release, The Colin Currie Group’s performance is nothing short of a powerhouse, and pianist Liza Stepanova plays with lots of character and color.

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Theater Review: “The Night of the Iguana” — A Creature Feature

March 4, 2017
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The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 25

March 25, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 25

February 25, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Arts Remembrance: Lucia Small, 1963-2022

November 21, 2022
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This is a profound loss to cinema and to Boston’s filmmaking community in particular, a close-knit group in which Lucia Small enjoyed many friendships and engaged in fruitful collaborations.

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Opera Album Review: A Marvelous New Recording of Rossini’s “The Silken Ladder”– at a Bargain Price

February 22, 2023
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Rossini’s one-act opera from 1812 rings fresh changes on a host of comic-opera clichés.

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Classical Music Review: Worcester Chamber Music Society — A Deeply Memorable Evening of Music Making

November 20, 2011
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The Worcester Chamber Music Society’s combination of repertoire demonstrated how creative programming can lead to highly satisfying musical results: each piece had something to say to or about its neighbors and the cumulative effect of hearing them in such a context made for a deeply memorable evening of music making.

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Visual Arts Review: “In the Vanguard” – Haystack’s First Twenty Years

August 27, 2019
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Contemporary crafts in those days would have been seen as far from the ‘vanguard’ by many art critics. Yet the almost 100 works on view tell a nuanced story about the expansive spectrum of creativity.

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Classical CD Reviews: Music for Horn and Orchestra, Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2019 New Year’s Concert

May 17, 2019
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Markus Maskuniitty’s solo debut recording is stunning, Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra play Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto with zest, and this is one of the strongestNew Year’s Concerts of the decade from the Vienna Philharmonic.

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Theater Commentary: “Skeleton Crew” — Not With the Union

March 18, 2018
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To my surprise, the auto union was written out of the picture from the start, as if dramatist Dominique Morisseau saw it as an embarrassment.

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