Soaring With Abandon and a Touch of Impish Glee
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Ms. Blythe gave a splendid recital at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, which included works by FaurÃ©, Frank Bridge and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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People who fly a lot tend to be nonchalant about the experience â until the plane hits a patch of choppy air. But airliners are built to take the turbulence.
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Lee Ann Womack's new album is strikingly handsome, with tunes so sweet you might almost miss the unexpectedly bleak lyrics.
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Often, that emotion is compounded by exhaustion, an incredible sense of loss, even rage that somebody took the life of someone you love.
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At this time of year, the world seems built for birds on the wing.
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âMusic and Lyricsâ aspires to nothing more than the competent dispensing of mild amusement and easy emotion.
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Ken Urbanâs new play is mystifying and frustrating. But there are satisfying elements in the production, which are rendered with wit and feeling by the versatile cast.
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While "Stranger Than Fiction" traffics in a bit of darkly funny existential anxiety, it also finds room for romantic fantasy and sentimental uplift.
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âHomo Politicusâ ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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The revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical has the disoriented quality of someone suffering from jet lag after a sleepless trans-Pacific flight.
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The quality of Martin  Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become  his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the  distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at  the same time slyly mocking his need for it.
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A blaring ambulance siren and a mellow-toned cello: They hardly make perfect harmony.
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Nothing announces the molasses-like onset of autumn as much as the cooling temperatures, and colorful fronds and leavesâsomething I refer to as a sort of pleasant depression or a delightful malaise.
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The two heroes may be losers, but Sideways is not. It finds hilarity in life's large and little disasters
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Bachâs melodic generosity and the exuberance of his instrumental combinations offer a reassuring escape from the bitter elements and the holiday rush.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that doom and gloom.