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Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?

January 12, 2013
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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?

Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances of 2018

December 21, 2018
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Our critic’s twelve favorite classical music performances that he reviewed this past year.

Book Review: “Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting” — Demanding the Miraculous

July 25, 2023
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It is the volume’s autobiographical component, the accounts of Pasolini’s wide wanderings in art and aesthetic revelations, with their dramatic, cinematic flashbacks, that give this collection much of its literary value.

Music Interview: Talking to Organist Dr. Lonnie Smith — Soul-Jazz Legend

August 11, 2016
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Jazz organ pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to the Rockport Jazz Festival.

Book Review: Will Self’s Moral Reckoning — Satire for a Decadent Age

March 20, 2026
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As is the case with effective satirists, Will Self is nothing if not provocative.

PEN World Voices — Day One

May 1, 2008
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by Bill Marx I’m down in New York for PEN American’s annual Festival of International Literature, five days of readings, panels, and discussions on writing around the globe that emphasizes the plight of imperiled authors, particularly those that write in languages other than English. Chinese dissident writer Ma Jian

Classical CD Reviews: “La Damnation de Faust,” Villa-Lobos’ Guitar & Harmonica Concertos, and Messiaen Orchestral Works

December 26, 2019
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John Nelson’s La Damnation de Faust is a triumph; you will rarely encounter Villa-Lobos played with greater understanding or in better sound than here; Paavo Järvi and his orchestra’s survey of Messiaen orchestral works early and late is resplendent.

Classical CD Reviews: “Recurrence” and “Thrive on Routine” (Sono Luminus)

June 15, 2017
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Why do such a high number of significant contemporary composers hail from Iceland?

Rap Album Review: MIKE goes “Disco!”

July 8, 2021
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Disco! feels like the culmination of what will be seen as an early stage in MIKE’s career –– stylistic mastery achieved, a mountain summit reached.

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s “American Masters”

October 11, 2016
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The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.

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