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Music Interview: Vancouver’s Dan Bejar, Leader of the band Destroyer

January 22, 2018
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“There’s not too many people wanting their money back, thinking that they’re at a Pig Destroyer show or Destroyer 666.”

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Theater Review: “Elephant” — Truth or Dare

May 16, 2018
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As long as we’re sipping the truth serum wine, the biggest obstacle presented by the Storm Warnings Repertory Theatre production is — itself.

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Concert Review: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 13, 2016
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The biggest musical takeaway was the sheer brilliance of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing, which is the gold standard.

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Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

June 21, 2017
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Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.

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Film Review: Back from the Moscow International Film Festival

July 2, 2013
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Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.

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Concert Review: Orchestre National de France at Symphony Hall

January 25, 2016
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My snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).

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Theater Interview: Bedlam Doubled — Director Eric Tucker on Twelfth Night/What You Will

June 17, 2016
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“What other play culminates in such a frenzy of emotion and joy and love all in a moment on stage?”

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Classical Music Commentary: Kapellmeister Nelsons

September 10, 2015
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We’ll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there’s no reason to suspect that Boston’s getting the short end of the stick here.

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Rock Interview: Talking with Brand X — After Decades, Back on Tour

October 23, 2016
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Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Widmann and Brahms at Symphony Hall

October 7, 2016
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The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.

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