Summertime

Classical Album Review: Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s “Summertime” — A Keeper

September 25, 2021
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A thoughtfully conceived, technically excellent, beautifully recorded, and expressively rich album that celebrates 20th-century piano music by (mostly) American composers.

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Film Review: “Summertime” — Poetry Collective

July 16, 2021
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Despite the artificiality of Summertime’s premise, director Carlos López Estrada links the film’s episodes together via a kind of seamless magical realism: each moment smoothly leads to the next, each accelerates towards a powerful resolution.

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