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An early highlight of the upcoming Leonard Bernstein centennial is Sony Classical’s 25-disc box set.
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Boston’s veneration of John Singer Sargent is awkwardly implicated in the city’s habit of denouncing modern art.
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Jeremy Eichler calls on hearers to engage in “deep listening,” by which he means engaging the mind and heart not just with the music, but also with the historical, cultural, and artistic contexts that gave rise to it.
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Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.
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One reason Fred Waitzkin’s work, outside of Searching for Bobby Fischer, is not as well known as it might be is that it doesn’t respect time-honored boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
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A slow thinker, I read 600 pages into “Moby Dick” before putting my finger on the book’s key tension. It’s between Ishmael’s intense and ecological whale love and the central story which chronicles the wanton murdering of whales, man’s unconcern with destroying the natural world.
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A Compendium of Consolations: The Words of Albert Murray
“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
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