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Classical CD Reviews: Prokofiev’s “Cantata on the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution” and “Music of the Americas”

January 26, 2018
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It’s not Prokofiev at his finest, but his “very good” was above just about everybody else’s best.

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Film Review: “A Bigger Splash” — Romance, Darkly Comic

May 15, 2016
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A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.

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Album Review: When Nobody/Everybody is Listening – The Basement Tapes

November 21, 2014
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It may seem a bit like overkill, and in many ways it is, but that all depends on your perspective.

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Food Feature: The Culinary Arts Museum — A Mouth-Watering Experience

October 10, 2014
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The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University reopened in September after a fifteen month hiatus to re-assess its inventory.

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Concert Review: Violinist Joshua Bell and Conductor-Designate Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood

July 22, 2014
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To judge from the BSO’s responsive playing and the audience’s enthusiastic responses, director-designate Andris Nelsons can’t do much wrong these days. Of course, a decade ago, neither could James Levine.

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Film Interview: A Brief Conversation with Filmmaker Peter Flynn

April 7, 2016
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The Dying of the Light looks at the history of film projection by way of the projectionists themselves.

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Book Review: “Next Big Thing” — The Music Scene and Rock Clubs of 1980s Boston, Revived

November 30, 2013
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In “Next Big Thing,” Terry Kitchen’s prose brings 1980s Boston, its music scene, and its rock clubs—from the long gone Rathskeller to the still standing Paradise—to life.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: (late) August 2012

August 17, 2012
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A rare visit from trumpeter and composing improviser/improvising composer Arthur Brooks, a farewell evening of Ecuadorian fusion by ÑAWI, and trumpeter Brian Lynch’s “Unsung Heroes” project are the high points in a surprisingly full second half of August.

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Cultural Commentary: The Rise of Book Product — Fifty Shades of Blech

June 30, 2012
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Book product, much like food product, is manufactured –- from its very inception, designed to make money by shameless pandering to mainstream taste.

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Dance Review: Wishing on Lar’s Star

October 22, 2012
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Where “Little Rhapsodies” is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, “Crisis Variations”, choreographed last season, lurches into the void.

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