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What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For May

Dana Wen — Sat, 10 May 2014 14:55:42 +0000

Though May is already in full swing, there are still plenty of options for classical music fans looking for live music. This month's offerings run the gamut from opera and chamber music to modern dance and ballet.

At Spectrum, Donald Byrd Gives “Needless Talents” Human Faces

Michael van Baker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:57:10 +0000

To bring this back down to earth, consider choreographer Donald Byrd's statement that, with The Theater of Needless Talents, he wanted to get into how particular humans keep finding ways to commit atrocities against humanity. Rather than totalizing Nazi power, buying into the Reich's myth, his work, iconoclastic as ever, breaks it into pieces.

What’s Love Got to Do with Spectrum Dance’s LOVE?

Philippa Kiraly — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:49:12 +0000

In the third section, six men lifted Jade Solomon Curtis high overhead, twisting, turning, swooping, and arching her in a myriad shapes, the most absorbing sequence of the performance. Had she not been so strong and so flexible, and had the supporters’ hands not all been in the right place at the right time, some moves could have been seen as downright dangerous in terms of breaking her back.