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There are always opportunities to rediscover the wonders of Beethoven and this recent album will move your soul, says TIME Music Critic Michael Walsh. Why? It's recorded on instruments used in Beethoven's era -- the 1820s -- under the direction of conductor John Eliot Gardiner who "whips up some excitement."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
Prince's new album is really an old album dating back to 1987 and resurrected to fulfill contractual obligations. It reveals just how ahead of his times Prince was in anticipating "the decidedly unlovesexy anger and violence in the gangster rap of the 1990s," says TIME Music Critic David Thigpen. Of the music, Thigpen notes that "the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men." And, while the anger in the music will probably hamper its success, it is nevertheless "a rich and complex record...
...this year there's a new alternative on a similar scale: A lavish $12 million production of "A Christmas Carol" at the Paramount theater (located conveniently above Penn Station) starts previewing today. With top-notch composers and stage designers "it could be a must-see for families" says TIME critic Elizabeth L. Bland.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...filled with the standard interminable terminating, this movie, which opens this weekend, shows us a kinder, gentler, more androgynous side of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The central joke of the movie is the he-man's pregnancy. Silly? Maybe, butTIME film critic Richard Schickelcalls it a "high energy farce" which "won't make you a better person, but it might, very briefly, make you a happier one."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...evidence of the Holocaust. That's the setting for a fictional thriller premiering on HBO Saturday. An SS officer and an American reporter stumble upon evidence that the fatherland's version may not reflect the truth. How they uncover the whole truth follows. Comes recommended byTIME television critic Richard Zoglin.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...