Film (2012)
Written and directed by
Leos Carax
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A French metaphysical adventure of the imagination, a kind of modern, offbeat Divine Comedy, with a protagonist who becomes, through costume and makeup, many wildly different characters.
Beethoven’s Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano: Pieter Wispelwey and Lois Shapiro
Concert
The Complete Cello-Piano Sonatas by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Lois Shapiro, piano
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Other Son
Film (2012)
Directed by Lorraine Lévy
Kendall Square Cinema
A sensitively written account of a mixup of identities between two young men – one, Palestinian, the other, Israeli.
Boston Philharmonic: Prokoviev with Stefan Jackiw, Strauss with Rafael Keizer-Popper, and Sibelius
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Repeats, Saturday, 10/27, 8:00pm, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Sunday, 10/28, 3:00pm, Sanders Theater
Scintillating and moving renditions of the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No. 2, with former wunderkind, now wunder-young-adult, Stefan Jackiw, and of Strauss’s Don Quixote, with the Philharmonic’s dynamic principal cellist, Rafael Popper-Keizer, and an unfamiliar but interesting Sibelius piece to boot.
The Chosen
Play (1999)
Adapted by Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner
From the novel by Chaim Potok
Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Boston, MA
October 19 – November 17, 2012
A faithful rendition of the noted novel by Chaim Potok about two Orthodox Jewish boys and their fathers, one a Hasidic rebbe, the other a scholar.