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Chamber Orchestra: Mozart and controversy
Old audiences and the young Mozart
Where are the young audiences? Did Mozart hate the flute? Was the young Mozart a genius or merely a talented prodigy? Arguing about music after a concert may be fun, but the performers usually get the last word.
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Artemis Quartet at the Perelman
Missing body report
Whatever else you may say about Beethoven, even at his most ethereal and refined, his is a music that speaks through the body. You don’t play him like Debussy or Fauré.
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'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (1st review)
A marine in freefall
A gripping play about veterans of the Iraq war is daring and frightening in its world premiere.
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When words get in the way
Words without borders; art without why
In a need for knowing why, words are used as a Leviathan to capture art.
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Durang’s ‘Vanya and Sonia’ by PTC
Six characters in search of a catalyst
Christopher Durang’s witty if lightweight comedy Vanya and Sonia poses a puckish literary question: If Chekhov’s characters were given a second chance to pursue the road less taken, where would they go?
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Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' (second review)
Inside a Central European snow globe
The Grand Budapest Hotel is no different from Wes Anderson’s other films — it is visually stunning and quite funny, but there is nothing at the center.
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Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’
The glory that once was (not) Zubrowka
Wes Anderson’s marvelously inventive Grand Budapest Hotel is that rare film that can be enjoyed on several levels. And it arrives at an especially propitious moment in history.
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When an autistic child enjoys performing
Making music with Malcolm
It wouldn't have occurred to me that my autistic son might want to appear in a musical, but he did.
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Documentaries about gentrification
Telling neighborhood stories
Some urban neighborhoods under pressure from the forces of gentrification document their battles through documentaries. Filmmaker Kathryn Smith Pyle singles out some worth your consideration.
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Solzhenitsyn plays Prokofiev
Prokofiev in deadly earnest
Prokofiev’s war sonatas are rarely played in the West. Russia itself seems at stake in this music, and there’s probably no living pianist who can play them better than Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
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