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A 1962 concert performance from Radio Italiana, now on CD, shows how delightful Wagner can sound without barking and slow wobbles.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Even if the closing film was a complete and utter bust, I had a blast seeing some really great movies with fantastic crowds. See you next year, and as always, stay weird Boston.
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This re-release of a superb recording of a major Meyerbeer opera reminds us what treasures are available to opera companies (and college opera programs) willing to step beyond the well-trodden path.
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Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is almost something of a phenomenon now: in just eight months, I’ve heard it played by three different fiddlers — Baiba Skride, Lisa Batiashvili, and Inmo Yang.
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The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreMore pithy reviews of Boston Jewish Film Festival fare, including some reflections on entries in the Short Films Competition.
Read MoreHere is Tanglewood live and uncensored, as it were, with music often thrillingly brought to life by some of the hallowed legends of the BSO’s storied past: Koussevitzky, Monteux, Munch, Leinsdorf, Ozawa, Bernstein, Previn -— the list goes on and on.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — The More Things Change …
At the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival we tend to gravitate to the locals and other “regional acts” from around the world and hope, most of all, for those surprises — artists unlike any we’ve seen before, anywhere.
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