Play, with music (2012)
Adapted and directed by
Hershey Felder
With Mona Golabek
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
November 23 – December 16, 2012
A riveting account of the real-life experience of the talented pianist Lisa Jura – the mother of the performer, Mona Golabek – who grew up in Vienna and was saved from the Nazis in 1938 by means of the kindertransport which at the eleventh hour spirited 10,000 Jewish children abroad.
Chasing Ice
Film (2012)
Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Written by Mark Monroe
The earth is indeed warming and glaciers are melting and receding, often, as this documentary vividly shows, before our very eyes.
Flight
Film (2012)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Starring Denzel Washington
Somerville Theatre
Somerville, MA
Despite some seriously impairing habits, a talented pilot performs amazingly well on the job. But, in the wake of a difficult turn of events, his demons come to haunt him.
Anna Karenina
Film (2012)
Directed by Joe Wright
Screenplay by Tom Stoppard
based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
The great Tolstoy novel put through a theatrical lens by screenwriter Tom Stoppard, starring a stunningly radiant Keira Knightley.
Boston Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 2 with George Li, Shostakovich Symphony 5
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
The piano prodigy, George Li, now in his later teens, shows his amazing technique, and the BPO gives an heroic rendition of the great Shostakovich classic.