arts and culture
‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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John Keats – A Revolutionary Romantic
February 11, 2021John Keats is one of the greatest writers in English. His revolutionary vision reaches far into the future.
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Anne Feeney (1951-2021): Wherever there’s a fight, she’ll be there
February 10, 2021Truth telling is tough, but Anne’s music brought that to life and put it on the stage.
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‘Marble-ous’: Russian maestro’s masterful Michelangelo biopic
February 9, 2021Michelangelo Buonarroti, that incomparable Renaissance Man, is masterfully brought back to life by movie maestro co-writer/director Andrei Konchalovsky in Sin (Il Peccato).
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