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April 3, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

FLIGHT PATHS

Lennox Theatre, March 17 5/10 The gap between intent and outcome is the hardest artistic chasm to bridge. The second hardest is to detach the work of art from the causal impetus, so it becomes self-contained, rather than being reliant on the audience’s sympathy for the artist’s peeves du jour.…

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April 1, 2018 / Features - Archive

Joan Baez: the voice of folk bids farewell

The luminous soprano extension to her voice melted away years ago, but that was just the snowy peak of her singing, anyway, not the mountain. The mountain was her conviction. Even back in high school Joan Baez took a lone stance against participating in a nuclear war drill. This was…

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March 31, 2018 / Concert Reviews - Archive

KAMASI WASHINGTON

Concert Hall, March 13 7/10 “We’re going to go on a little journey together,” Kamasi Washington told us at the outset. Nearly two hours later when that journey ended what had been striking about the trip was its the sheer scale. The LA-based tenor saxophonist called his 2015 magnum opus…

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