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Concert Review: The Boston Philharmonic Performs Ravel, Berg, and Mahler

February 29, 2024
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The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra was violinist Liza Ferschtman’s equal partner for much of the performance, imbuing Alban Berg’s dense orchestral writing with warmth and shapeliness

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Rock Album Review: Iggy Pop at the Montreux Jazz Festival — Raw Power, Reanimated

January 24, 2025
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Bottom line: “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” captures the manic, mercurial energy that transformed the man born James Osterberg into the legend that is Iggy Pop.

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Television Review: “North of North” — Another Nice Canadian Sitcom, Eh?

April 14, 2025
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Given the current state of the world, we need more shows that not only entertain, but reflect the importance of community. And, if those programs accurately portray a close-knit group of people that has been misrepresented, all the better.

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Concert Review: Beth Gibbons — Still an Aching, Spectral Voice

April 7, 2025
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Stripped of trip-hop trappings, Beth Gibbons’s fragile voice commanded through a ghostly filter effect as she sang with edgy emotion, peaking in the tagline, “How can it feel this wrong?”

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Opera Review: “The Dragon of Wantley” — Knight Kicks Dragon in the Arse

March 8, 2023
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More popular than The Beggar’s Opera, J. F. Lampe’s goofy opera of 1737 receives its first complete recording, and the performance is splendidly, subtly humorous.

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Jazz Album Review: Steve Davis’s “Bluesthetic” — Swinging Oh-So Comfortably

July 5, 2022
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Trombonist Steve Davis says he never strays very far from the blues, and he proves it with this fine album.

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Poetry Review: “Continuous Creation” — A Farewell from a Grand Old Man of Australian Verse

April 27, 2022
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Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.

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Jazz Album Review: “A Prayer for Lester Bowie” — Rollercoaster Rides

September 24, 2021
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This session should appeal most to those who love the crashing, intemperate sound of a brass big band.

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Theater Review: A Raucous and Moving “Cloud 9”

June 22, 2019
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Expert performers and taut direction make this Cloud 9 a natural high.

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Jazz Record Review: Trumpeter Jason Palmer Aptly Titled Album — “Fair Weather”

January 4, 2019
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Trumpeter Jason Palmer is a master of rhythmic displacement.

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