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World Music Review: Tinariwen’s Saharan Grooves

October 5, 2019
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Tinariwen’s music exudes determination, the soulful energy of ethnic resilience.

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Theater Review: “Mass Appeal” — A Compelling Drama of Ritual

February 3, 2017
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Profoundly conservative and radically fresh, Mass Appeal justifies its title in the Peterborough Players fine production.

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Jazz Concert Review: Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition at the ICA

March 19, 2018
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Indo-Pak Coalition’s energized music and performance somehow manages to square the circle —  it is as engaging as it is songful and intelligent.

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By Request: Out of the Past — Sexual Harassment, Trouble at the Gloucester Stage Company

November 2, 2017
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Let us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.

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Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance — An Uneven Outing

July 1, 2015
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“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.

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Concert Review: Tchaikovsky, Takemitsu, and Shostakovich at Symphony Hall

April 28, 2017
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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gave a searing, intense reading of the solo part in Nostalghia (In Memory of Andrei Tarkovskij).

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Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight for the Press — Publishing the Pentagon Papers

November 29, 2013
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As the individual who quite possibly had the best seats in the house for the monumental legal battle that unfolded over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 1971, James Goodale provers invaluable morsels of insight and information.

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Classical Album Reviews: Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto and Claire Huangci’s “Made in U.S.A.”

October 29, 2024
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There’s plenty in Magnus Lindberg’s viola concerto to occupy the ear, and pianist Claire Huangci makes the complex passagework of a trio of American composers speak with breathtaking ease.

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Film Feature: Icelandic Culture Invades Boston

March 4, 2016
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This year’s Taste of Iceland is bringing in only one film, Rock in Reykjavik, and it is screening only once.

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Film Review: “Fences” — The Tragedy of Walls

December 27, 2016
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This excellent film version of the play Fences meets (even exceeds) the considerable demands of August Wilson’s script.

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