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Half the population of Washington may still be lining up to see the Van Gogh show, but the exhibition that Vincent himself, as an obsessed lover of Japanese art, would most likely be heading for hangs in another part of the National Gallery of Art. It is "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868," a magnificent selection of nearly 300 works in every medium, from woodblock prints to lacquerware, from tiny netsuke to eight-fold painted screens, assembled by the American scholar Robert Singer and mostly lent by Japanese institutions. It is replete with objects listed in Japan as "National Treasures...
...Edo" was both a place and a time frame. It was the old name of the city we call Tokyo, and "Edo period" denotes the 2 1/2 centuries during which an absolute regime, founded there in the early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over all Japan through 15 generations of his descendants. The symbolic moment at which the period began to close was 1853, when Commodore Perry's black ships, crewed by their blue-eyed, spindle-nosed, strange-smelling gaijin, the Americans, sailed into lower Edo Bay and broke the seal of isolation from...
...official Cultural Ambassador of the Sydney, Australia 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The November 13 performance at Symphony Hall was also a part of BankBoston's annual Celebrity Series. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra's 1988 American debut in Carnegie Hall. Led by Dutch conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra makes its first appearance since then as they tour 11 U.S. cities, performing the music of Beethoven, Richard Strauss and contemporary composer Graeme Koehne...
Blake and Majmudar lost a heartbreaking 9-8 (7-2) one-set match to Carlos Drada and Edo Baworno at No. 1, while freshman Cillie Swartz, demonstrating more of the promise that he hinted at last weekend, beat Tomaz Smid and Rovan Stephens 8-5 along with Doran...
...with most productions in the A.R.T., all of the actors are superb. Dionysos himself, played with superhero-like gusto by Michael Edo Keane, entrances the audience from the moment he explodes onto the stage, confidently informing us, "I am the son of God!" Unlike the smirking and leering Winsome Brown '95 (the female Dionysos in the earlier production), Keane demonstrates a rich range of emotions. The audience laughs when he drops self-adoring one-liners, sighs when the Maenad chorus drapes themselves over him, shudders when he hollers in anger. This Dionysos is a creature with genuine power, which makes...