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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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One of the masterpieces of Russian drama is done justice in a English version that successfully captures much of the wit and fluency of the original.
Read MoreA series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.
Read MoreWhat is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver’s new novel The End of the Point, a multi-generational story about the trials and tribulations of a family that takes place between 1942 and 1999 in Ashaunt Point, a fictional beach community on Massachusetts’ seacoast.
Read MoreCutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.
Read MoreAs stated in the General Laws of Massachusetts, “Arms, Great Seal and Other Emblems of the Commonwealth – The Boston Cream Pie shall be the official dessert or dessert emblem of the commonwealth.” Winning against Indian Pudding, easy as pie, it became the Official Mass. Dessert in 1996. Boston Cream Pie day was October 23,…
Read More“All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories.”
Read MoreInescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
Read MoreIn some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.
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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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