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A few words about ‘sacred spaces’
The priceless cost of peace of mind
Architects and builders are now designing Zen gardens, meditation rooms, yoga studios and private chapels for their highest-end clients. But domestic shrines are simply the equivalent of exercise equipment: aids to help us stumble into moments of transcendence.
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Robert Weintraub’s ‘The Victory Season’
Baseball, then and now
Robert Weintraub’s The Victory Season looks back to America’s first postwar baseball year, 1946, when the Red Sox and Cardinals faced each other, as this year, in an entertaining World Series. The differences in the game—and in ourselves—are palpable, though.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s week of premieres
New faces, new sounds (and even new words)
Three premieres unveiled this week by the Philadelphia Orchestra satisfied the human need for inner nourishment and rational thought. Too bad audiences couldn’t hear all three works together.
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‘The Glass Menagerie’ in New York
A director who listens to his author
In John Tiffany’s tender production of The Glass Menagerie, the individual performances offer heartfelt interpretations of Tennessee Williams’s immortal characters. Cherry Jones may be the most formidable Amanda I’ve seen, while Zachary Quinto’s touching Tom is ironic to the point of tragicomedy.
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‘Surrealists’ at the Art Museum (1st review)
It is and isn’t Art
Surrealists didn’t depict things so much as what things suggested to the painter. They were ready to embrace the irrational precise because they saw where an ordered, rational social structure had led them. This Art Museum show rounds up the usual suspects but also includes some intriguing painters you rarely if ever hear of.
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‘Once’ at the Academy of Music (2nd review)
Not quite a concert, not quite a play
Once is a miniature folk concert accompanied by a slender story about a man and a woman who briefly come together, then go their separate ways.
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‘Once’ at the Academy of Music (1st review)
Can music keep us together?
What’s more irresistible than two people falling in love to music? Especially when you can go on stage and order a beer and listen to Irish music at the same time? Whether such a love can last— that’s another story.
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Lessons from the Cape May Film Festival
Those who can, do; those who can’t, attend film schools
Why do America’s many film schools produce so few good movies? And why are the best films made by school dropouts with real-world experience? To ask the question is to answer it.
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Dolce Suono’s 18th-Century entertainment
When musicians show their stuff
Dolce Suono combined a lesson in 18th-Century performance practice with a reminder that music ought to be a pleasure.
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Ned Rorem’s 90th at Curtis
A composer who cares about words
Curtis Institute celebrated Ned Rorem’s 90th birthday with a magnum opus that summed up a career devoted to the art of adding music to well-chosen words.
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