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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
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.
Jazz organ pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to the Rockport Jazz Festival.
As is the case with effective satirists, Will Self is nothing if not provocative.
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
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.
Why do such a high number of significant contemporary composers hail from Iceland?
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.
The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.
Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances of 2018
Our critic’s twelve favorite classical music performances that he reviewed this past year.
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