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I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.
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A new recording of Ferdinando Paër’s Leonora gives us characters we love (or love to hate) in a fresh light
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The film allowed me to see the dancers’ connections to each other, and their connections to the quarries themselves.
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When I think of Bill Withers I think of just three handclaps. It’s my favorite example in his music, or just about anyone else’s, of the power of restraint — not slamming and flailing about to shift a groove into overdrive.
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It was as if the pianists were performing in a small drawing room for a few friends, not at Jordan Hall.
Read MoreThe story of The Daily Show is interesting to fans, but it’s also relevant to understanding the evolution of political satire.
Read MoreChances to hear conjunto music in New England are rare; bravo to the Lowell Folk Festival and Rhode Island’s Rhythm and Roots.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreThe biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Read MoreLila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
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