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5.18.11
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5.12.11
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5.15.11
Famed Spiritual Teacher to Speak on Nonviolence
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5.12.11
Special Effects Wizard to Be Honored by Film Festival
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5.11.11
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6.4.09
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5.8.11
Berkshire Living to Cease Publication
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5.8.11
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5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
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5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Peter Serkin and the BSO at Symphony Hall

10.21.06
Romantic warmth as the BSO's river quickens

By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's schedule this fall is packed with events linked to James Levine's ambitious and challenging Beethoven/Schoenberg Project, but not this week. If the orchestra's season is like a river with a quickening current, pulling us toward next week's performances of Schoenberg's monumental opera "Moses und Aron," then Thursday night's program was an eddy in which to linger, a peaceful pocket of the Central European Romanticism capable of pleasing even the most conservative tastes. It began with Brahms's massive Second Piano Concerto and ended with Schumann's expansive Second Symphony.

The soloist was Peter Serkin, who can be counted on for thoughtful, erudite pianism but might seem an unusual choice for a big-boned Romantic work like this one. And true to form, this was a thinking man's Brahms, a performance that commanded attention not with Dionysian virtuosity but through a keen alertness to rhythmic and harmonic subtleties in the score. Serkin seemed to have reconsidered the musical logic of each phrase and tempo but this was not an overly dry reading. The third movement was especially rewarding, with the pianist's lapidary lines interspersed with the warm, honeyed tones of Jules Eskin's cello solo.

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