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Book Commentary: Three Weeks Before the Mast — Reading “Moby Dick”

September 7, 2025
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A slow thinker, I read 600 pages into “Moby Dick” before putting my finger on the book’s key tension. It’s between Ishmael’s intense and ecological whale love and the central story which chronicles the wanton murdering of whales, man’s unconcern with destroying the natural world.

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Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

May 15, 2014
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Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.

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Fuse Music Review — The New World Jazz Composers Octet: Big Ideas, Small Boxes

November 4, 2010
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With musicians of the NWJCO’s caliber, there never was a question that the music would be performed well in concert. It’s more that, after living with this repertoire for almost a year, the players took greater possession of the music and made it more their own, even in performance of the written material. By Steve…

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Jazz Preview: Bassist Gary Peacock Plays What He Doesn’t Know

October 23, 2017
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Veteran bassist Gary Peacock doesn’t differentiate between experimental and straight-ahead jazz.

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Opera Album Review: Finally, Verdi’s Original 1857 Version of “Simon Boccanegra” Gets the Recording It Deserves

June 21, 2025
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The skillful Mark Elder leads a fine cast, including the superb Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas.

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Music Review: The Beatles are Still Here, There, and Everywhere

May 8, 2024
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Beatles fans are being treated to a three-fer of projects spanning three media genres: a restoration of the film “Let It Be,” a book focusing on the two 1967 songs “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” and an appearance on the new season of “Doctor Who”.

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Book Review: “Anything Is Good” — An Unforgettable Look at Life at the Margins

July 18, 2024
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Fred Waitzkin’s beautiful, sad book will stay with me forever.

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Theater Interview: Playwright Bernard Pollack on “Little Peasants” — A Holistic View of Union Organizing

February 18, 2024
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Must the stage only discreetly charm the bourgeoisie?

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Doc Talk: Jewish Values Celebrated in This Year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival

October 30, 2023
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In a time of outrage and grief, a trio of documentaries at the BJFF serve as a reminder of the traditional Jewish values of compassion and inclusion, reaffirming the power of activism, art, and simple acts of human kindness.

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Book Review: The Inside Story of Abbey Road Studio — Definitive

September 7, 2023
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The truth is the Beatles wouldn’t have been the Beatles without Abbey Road, and Abbey Road wouldn’t have been Abbey Road without the Beatles.

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