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Film Review: “Eight Days a Week” — A Marvelous Look at The Beatles on Tour

September 12, 2016
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Unlike any other Beatles documentary, this one succeeds in presenting the hysteria of the few years when the band played live and toured the world.

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Author Interview: Stephanie Schorow on “The Great Boston Fire” — Urban Conflagration

November 9, 2022
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“A lot of people don’t know about this fire today. It’s not really well-known as part of the city’s history.”

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Jazz Album Review: Pianist Jason Yeager’s “Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite” — So It Goes

November 10, 2022
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The advantage to listening to the recorded Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite is that on disc pianist Jason Yeager writes beautifully for septet: the textures he evokes in his arrangements are curiously varied and invariably moving.

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Jazz Album Review: Catherine Russell’s “Send for Me” — A Deep Dig into the Jazz of the ’30s and ’40s

April 28, 2022
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If you’re a fan of the Great American Songbook, but have grown weary of the warhorses, Send For Me is a treat.

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Concert Review: Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony at Symphony Hall

October 27, 2018
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Andris Nelsons presided over an interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony #2 that was both tightly controlled and emotionally cathartic.

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Classical CD Reviews: Schumann’s Choral Music and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang

July 15, 2018
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Conductor Aapo Häkkinen explores Robert Schumann’s writing for chorus;Andrew Manze caps off his three-volume Mendelssohn symphony survey with a glorious performance of the oddball Symphony no. 2.

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Film Review: “Call Me By Your Name” — Desire Under the Apricot Trees

December 27, 2017
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I can unequivocally say this is the most masterful and beautiful film of the year.

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Visual Arts Review: London’s Fourth Plinth — A Brilliant Public Artwork in Central London

April 21, 2018
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“The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist” is a rare transformative piece of public art.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook

August 3, 2015
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Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.

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Film Review: The Political Musician-Rebel Fela Kuti, the Master Blaster of Nigeria, Gets a Satisfying Bio Treatment in “Finding Fela”

August 19, 2014
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Because it includes so many images from all parts of his life, Finding Fela may offer the finest tribute to the star’s determination and defiance though the way his face and body look as time goes on.

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