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Concert Music Review: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and Pianist Evgeny Kissin — An Odd Dream Team

April 23, 2019
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A bit surprising — that two megastars choose such meat and potatoes repertoire.

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Dance Review: Going with the Flow — Trisha Brown Dance at ICA

November 13, 2011
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This is the third installment of Debra Cash’s coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Dance/Draw — this time around its an appreciation of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.

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Opera Review: BEMF Hangs Out with the Sun King

November 30, 2016
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The stellar BEMF team whips up a holiday confection that’s worth catching year after year.

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Theater News: There Goes the Neighborhood — Gold Dust Orphans to Lose their Fenway Home

May 8, 2019
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“I saw it coming three years ago, when there was a frenzy of development in the Fenway. Now the neighborhood looks like a corporate mall.”

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Theater Review: “Buyer & Cellar”—In Barbra Streisand’s Enchanted Village

December 8, 2015
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This one-man comic extravaganza about the dizzying spell of celebrity is a welcome respite from the annual bombardment of holiday joyrides.

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Concert Review: A Memorable “Winterreise” From Gerald Finley and Julius Drake

February 14, 2014
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Those of us who have heard Gerald Finley and Julius Drake knew what we were in for – truly beautiful singing throughout every range, and brilliantly expressive piano story-telling.

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Book Commentary: A Thousand Words for Paul West

June 19, 2011
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Paul West’s goal is to expand consciousness through the uninhibited play of the imagination, to revel in the glory of words, not to preach lessons in civic do-gooding. And that anarchistic intensity has gotten him into trouble with those who mistakenly believe that exploring the mind of evil indicates approval.

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Film Review: “The Guilty” — A Danish Thriller, Just as Relentless in English

September 28, 2021
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Director Anton Fuqua forgoes his usual action milieu with an unrelentingly tense, highly emotional English language remake of Den skyldige.

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Classical Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Haydn, Turnage, and Elgar

November 3, 2018
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As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.

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Visual Arts Review: Morgan at the Wadsworth — A Collector of the Fabulous

November 9, 2017
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Nothing of value, it seems, was out of the reach of J. Pierpont Morgan’s acquisitive grasp.

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