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Of the reams of argumentative modernist music that circulated through American universities after the Second World War, most is destined to gather dust on the same library shelves that contain the bustling Brahmsian symphonies and tidy Stravinskyan concertinos of previous generations. Ralph ...
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Carroll Dunham is working blue. That fact won’t shock fans of the painter—he arrived, in the eighties, with polymorphously perverse abstractions that gave way to a ribald world of phallus-faced men—but his new show at Gladstone just might. The best paintings of ...
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paragraph class="noindent">The name of this new Prospect Heights restaurant implies synonymy with its neighborhood, which, when you are opening up not far from several well-established joints, could easily misfire. Luckily, the co-owner Saul Bolton is a longtime presence in Brooklyn, possessor ...
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For those of us who look to the skies, two major releases compel attention. They make the perfect couple. One is “Up in the Air,” the new film from Jason Reitman, who made “Thank You for Smoking” and “Juno.” The other is “Come . . .
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Vámos’s novel chronicles a Hungarian family from 1705 until the present, as its members pass down their recollections of joy and hardship in the carefully preserved manuscript of the title. The novel proceeds via discrete episodes, each focussing on the life and death of a ...
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Finkel’s sad and wonderful account of soldiers’ experiences of war follows the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, which was thrown into one of Baghdad’s worst districts as part of the 2007 surge. The average age of its eight hundred soldiers was nineteen. Finkel, who spent ...
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John Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice,” published in 1971, has cast a long shadow over modern political philosophy. Sen’s stimulating and eloquent new work is in some ways a commentary on Rawls, but its refinements give his arguments greater applicability. Rawls was a ...
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This literary curiosity consists entirely of questions, vacillating between cocktail-party filler (“If you could see a large-animal trainer mauled in the middle of his or her show, perhaps even killed, would you prefer to see the mauling done by a lion, a tiger, or a ...
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goatTitle-->VARIETY SHOW TELETHON BASH
The Debutante Hour, a lively female vocal trio whose members play the accordion, the cello, and the drums, needs money to record a new album, so they’re putting on a show, with performances by other bands, jugglers, puppeteers, opera singers, and ...
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and ...
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OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA
After Luc Bondy’s limp staging of “Tosca” flopped on opening night, the Met needed a solid hit, and it has one with Patrice Chéreau’s riveting yet humane production of “From the House of the ...
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Symphony Space
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Balanchine’s staging of “The Nutcracker” has been entertaining and delighting children (and adults) since its première, in 1954. It has also been a testing ground for young dancers in many featured roles, from Candy Cane to Sugarplum ...
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OPENING
BIG RIVER MAN
A documentary, directed by John Maringouin, about Martin Strel, an endurance swimmer from Slovenia who attempts to swim the length of the Amazon. Opening Dec. 4. (In limited release.)
BROTHERS
A young man comforts the wife and children of his older ...
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paragraph class="noindent">Until the crisis of modernism blew up the bridge that connected classical music and middle-class taste, a composer was expected to have a modicum of religious music in his catalogue; even the agnostic Brahms had his motets and Serious Songs. In contemporary America, ...
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ROCK AND POP
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.
THE BELL HOUSE
149 7th St., between Second and Third Aves., Brooklyn (718-643-6510)—Dec. 2: The Mountain Goats, which is the name that ...
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DANCE
HAIR TRIGGER
Dec. 9-12
The Australian dance troupe Chunky Move is known for its cutting-edge multimedia experiments. In “Mortal Engine,” at BAM, the dancers’ movements on a steeply raked platform control green lasers and other lighting effects. (718-636-4100.)
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goatTitle-->STRAND BOOK STORE
The chefs David Chang and Mario Batali and the writer Peter Meehan talk about cookbooks and restaurants. (Broadway at 12th St. Dec. 2 at 7.)
JOHN ASHBERY READINGS
The poet reads from his forthcoming collection, “Planisphere,” at New York ...
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OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
The Cornwall-based Kneehigh Company presents Noël Coward’s play about an affair between a housewife and a doctor. Emma Rice directs. ...
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The director-choreographer Michael Bennett was forty-four when he died, from AIDS-related lymphoma, in 1987. He was raised in Buffalo, the son of a working-class Jewish mother and Italian father. To say that he was filled with moxie from an early age would be an understatement. ...
