A new edition re-orders the sonnets chronologically, shining a new light on Shakespeare the poet. An ideal gift for the English major in your family.
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Music Review: Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili – ‘Labyrinth’
The introspective new album from the French-Georgian pianist is a collage of short pieces spanning the centuries. Listen with a glass of wine of two.
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The first English translation of a book by Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid – a tale of a modern-day Holocaust historian – appears at an opportune time.
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Adept use of Zoom technology can't carry this listless autobiographical play from the screen into our hearts and minds.
Read More »Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein – ‘A Character of Quiet’ (Philip Glass, Franz Schubert)
Dinnerstein's masterful and thoroughly adult interpretive force makes her new album a balm for the soul, especially in such troubled times as these.
Read More »Bravo! Vail Mobile Stage Brings Chamber Music to the Vail Valley During Pandemic Summer
Tiny House-inspired 'Music Box' Series keeps the Bravo! Vail music festival spirit alive
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On this fresh-sounding album of big-band swing, Schwartz's Hammond B3 organ takes the place of piano and bass, with magical results.
Read More »Music Video Premiere: Brian Lisik – ‘Junior High School’
'Junior High School,' the first single from Brian Lisik's upcoming album 'Gudbye Stoopid Whirled,' takes on new meaning amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Read More »Music Review: World Premiere Recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s 1930 Symphony-Cantata ‘The Prison’
Trailblazing composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth's last major work receives a superb and long-overdue debut release.
Read More »Music Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard – ‘Co-Starring’ (Collaborations Album)
The Texas troubadour teams with collaborators ranging from hard southern-rockers to country and bluegrass legends and even a Beatle on latest album 'Co-Starring'
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