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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project — Music for the Now

May 13, 2025
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Happily, the composers on this compelling BMOP program were not cowed by tradition.

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Concert Review: A Fireball Performance from Styx at the MGM Music Hall

May 16, 2023
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I am happy to report that Styx 2023 is a powerhouse outfit, wielding the most exciting aspects of progressive rock with radio-friendly hooks, riffs, and rhythms that set it apart from many of its peers.

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Book Review: “Warhol” — Pop Art’s Timeless Impresario

June 1, 2021
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Accessible to the art-loving novice, Blake Gopnik’s Warhol suggests that his subject’s marketing genius doesn’t have a time limit.

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Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — A Perceptive Look at the Generation Gap

May 30, 2017
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4000 Miles is charming, insightful, and moving, an enjoyable anthropological study of contemporary American life across the generations.

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Dance Feature: Alvin Ailey and Boston’s Elma Lewis — Beautiful Beyond Resistance

December 13, 2017
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The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.

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Poetry Review: “Gabriel, A Poem” — A Terrible Beauty

October 17, 2014
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Gabriel is a searing experience to read, filled with sadness but also humor and forbearance, and may give comfort to parents who are dealing with difficult children.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — On Race and Hollywood

April 6, 2013
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The chief glory of the Lyric Stage production: an ensemble of eight actors that agilely accents the humor dramatist Lynn Nottage utilizes to temper her examination of the darker racial and political subtexts of the period.

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Classical CD Reviews: John Harbison’s “Winter’s Tale” (Soloists, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose) and Derek Bermel’s Canzonas Americanas (Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson)

October 28, 2012
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If you think contemporary music is the domain of fusty academics and has no bearing on (or relationship to) the outside world, you really need to check out “Canzonas Americanas.”

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Film Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” — A Haunting View of 1940s Israel

August 30, 2016
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Natalie Portman turned Israeli author Amos Oz’s extraordinary memoir of 1940s Jerusalem into a superb film,

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Theater Review: “An Audience with Meow Meow”—Blinded by Glitter

October 11, 2015
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Meow Meow milks the audience for applause so often it feels as if we are seated on stools in a dairy barn.

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