Occupied City

Film Review: Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City” – It Wasn’t Just Anne Frank

December 23, 2023

Posted in Featured, Film, Review

The disconnect between the Amsterdam of the past that is revisited and the scenes of life in the city today dramatize the fragility of memory and its erosion.

Opera Album Review: “Circé,” A Big Hit from the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, Now Enchantingly Recorded

May 13, 2024

Classical Music Album Review: Mendelssohn’s Complete Symphonies

May 13, 2024

Visual Arts Review: A New Fashion Statement from the MFA — Consumer Dreaming and Catwalk Preening

May 12, 2024

Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, Intertwined

May 12, 2024

Concert Review: Marc-André Hamelin plays Ives, Hamelin, Schumann, and Ravel

May 11, 2024

Rhian on Arts Commentary: It’s Not Funny — “Saturday Night Live” and the Mark Twain PrizeMay 13, 2024
My son & I used to bond over watching SNL. I watch it from time to time in the hopes…
Stephen Provizer on Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, IntertwinedMay 13, 2024
A complicated question, dealt with only peripherally in the book. You had some big band leaders trying to scale down…
Allen Michie on Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, IntertwinedMay 12, 2024
I’d be curious to read a comparison of how they each handled the decline of the big band era and…
Susan Miron on Concert Review: Marc-André Hamelin plays Ives, Hamelin, Schumann, and RavelMay 11, 2024
Lovely review, Jonathan! I adored the concert -- well worth the trip!
PF on Jazz Album Review: Julian Lage’s “Speak to Me” — Mostly MagicalMay 9, 2024
I find the recording to be bright and somewhat thin. Not the first time I am hearing this on JL…