Arts
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A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings
Frost glazed the ground, and mist hung in the air, as a brand-new Douglas DC-6B took off from Orly Airport…
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B.A. Parker Can’t Get Enough of K-Dramas
B.A. Parker was a film professor in her 20s when she had to rush her students out of the hall…
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What Becomes a Star Most? For Tom Cruise, It’s Control.
“In order to do my job,” Ben Stiller, as Tom Cruise’s stunt double Tom Crooze, muses in a video made…
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Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due?
“Do something,” the producer Gene Redd instructed the drummer George Brown and the bassist Robert “Kool” Bell during an early…
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‘Dom Juan’ Review: The Perks of Being a Professional Hypocrite
It’s a funny feeling and not always a welcome one when a play reaches out across the centuries and punches…
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Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble
His keeper, not his editor, I used to call myself in affectionate jest — and with enormous pride and respect.…
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Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — “Kiss me.” No sooner has the biblical Song of Songs begun than the speaker is making a…
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At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water
In a transfixing two-minute video called “River (The Water Serpent)” in the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing we see a drone…
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‘Demand Is Robust.’ Fireworks Come Roaring Back This Summer.
During the early months of the pandemic, the Grucci fireworks business, which has operated from the United States for more…
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Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite
With its earsplitting rounds of cannon fire and triumphal spirit, Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has been a staple of Fourth of…