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Hershey Felder's performance as Leonard Bernstein not only reconnects us with one of America's great musical geniuses: it is also a reminder that boundaries sometimes stifle our conception o…
If you find classical music to be a vibrant, living thing in which inventive pairings and convincing realizations of music of the distant and recent past can speak in fresh and vital ways to…
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our eighth session, a discussion about the Boston Universit…
Boston Baroque and conductor Martin Pearlman scored another triumph with their semi-staged original version of Gluck's revolutionary creation, an opera that, to its detriment, has often been…
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is a piece the BSO trots out with greater regularity of late than most orchestras (as Tanglewood aficionados are aware, it's been the traditional summer closer eac…
The Independent Film Festival of Boston has achieved a reputation as one of the hippest in the country because of the dedication of its small and dedicated staff, an army of well-trained vol…
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, has opened in Istanbul.
Don't expect a standard musical. Think of Fela! as an immersive, artsy, concert experience featuring virtuoso displays of dance and musicianship.
After catching your breath from a heavy dose of April film festivals, you may think you need a rest! While this month's Boston area offerings may look tidy in number, they are sprawling in s…
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our seventh session, this time a discussion about the Bosto…
The Kid With a Bike is a story of grace, compassion, redemption, and of the possibility of goodness in a very difficult and imperfect world.
Over the past 6 weeks William Kentridge has shown the form of the lecture itself to be obsolete. But over the course of his returns to the podium, he has shown us that the lecture's fate is …
While jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about "fusion."
Between songs Touré and Raichel conferred inaudibly with one another, deciding which tune they would play next. There was very little chatting up the audience, until before the fourth song.…
Author Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.
Mistranslation weaves through this lecture, for every translation is a mistranslation. But that is what makes them fruitful. As soon as we mis-hear or fail to understand, the brain construct…
Supplementing Eugene O'Neill's high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.
Discovery Ensemble occupies a rare space in two major respects: programming demanding works and executing them with spirit, enthusiasm, and inspired music making.
As the BSO searches for its new music director, Mr. Salonen's name is sure to come up. While he's probably a long-shot candidate, any orchestra that has him on their podium for a week or two…
In D. A. Powell's latest volume, the dominant landscape is that of the wasting body, which is crisscrossed, investigated, confronted, and made useful again as a map in the hands of raw youth.
"Fairness and Freedom" is a cultural/political/social history of the United States and New Zealand in one volume. To the general reader's likely question, "Why would anyone put the two in on…
William Kentridge spoke of the value of using a mirror to re-learn what he already knew how to do; the clear implication was that we are daily surrounded by mirror-images that we do not see …
What lies in the future for the critically praised organization? Music director Courtney Lewis has plans that will keep him with the Discovery Ensemble for some time.
If the icon is both a window into the mystical experience of the painter and a door allowing the saint to come into the believer's world, am I, unbeliever that I am, hoping to stand in the l…
This recording heralds a serious, probing musician exploring some vital, if unfamiliar, twentieth-century violin repertoire, and, as such, presents a more-than-welcome addition to recent sol…
