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Desperate Dancing

August 28, 2004
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An indispensable new biography of Broadway legend Jerome Robbins reevaluates his life and work.

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Classical Music Review: The BSO — A Chemistry Lesson

November 21, 2011
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It was clear from the moment Ludovic Morlot mounted the podium that he and the Boston Symphony Orchestra possess a strong chemistry: the players clearly respect him and they responded to his leadership with precision, energy, and feeling.

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Classical Music CD Reviews: Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming Do Justice to Viennese Modernists; Jerusalem Quartet Play Beethoven String Quartets

August 29, 2015
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The Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming team up for one of the finest recordings of the year.

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Book Review: Mario Vargas Llosa’s “Harsh Times” — A Menagerie of Monsters Great and Petty

November 22, 2021
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Above and beyond Mario Vargas Llosa’s political outlook, his latest novel proves that he remains at heart a master storyteller.

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Album Review: “Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s” — A Rich Centennial Treat

April 18, 2022
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The centenary of bassist/composer Charles Mingus’ birthday is days away and I am listening to the beautifully packaged and processed and richly annotated 3 lps of Mingus’s Lost Album, recorded live at Ronnie Scott’s London club in 1972.

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Book Review: Hebrew Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik — Not the Whole Story

February 13, 2017
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We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.

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Film Review: “Unsane” — Stalking 2.0

April 1, 2018
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Despite some storytelling flaws, Unsane is ultimately suspenseful, terrifying, and rather haunting.

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Book Review: “Franci’s War” — A Very Relevant Holocaust Memoir

March 31, 2020
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Here we have the story of a young Czech woman who could not only take a piece of fabric and shape it into a gorgeous dress, but could also take her experiences during WWII and shape them into a compelling memoir.

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Visual Arts: The Cotswolds Rembrandt

November 17, 2007
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em>The initial reactions by Rembrandt specialists to the Cotswolds painting were nearly all marked by caution.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 21

December 21, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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