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80 is different in 2023 than in 1776 – but even back then, a grizzled Franklin led alongside a young Hamilton

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s running for another term raises concerns for many Americans. At his potential second inauguration, he would be 82, beating himself in becoming the oldest among American presidents.

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BBCNOW/Bancroft review – Adams’ colossal Harmonielehre is full of colour, drama and life

Ryan Bancroft and the National Orchestra of Wales were superb in works by Ives and Adams; Szymanowki’s glittering Violin Concerto, a less obvious choice for the “American” programme, was passionately realised by Bomsori Kim

The Guardian - UK

Alexandra Petri’s US history review: if you’re going to lie, lie big – and funny

The Washington Post columnist nails conservative attempts to rewrite the American story but is sure to keep the jokes flowing

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Renée Fleming stars as `Nixon in China' arrives in Paris

Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals' wives, a countess and a courtesan

The Independent UK

Let Massholes Be Massholes, Says Bay State's High Court

Criticism of public officials doesn't have to be polite, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed.

Reason

Town Public Comment Policy Requiring Remarks to Be "Respectful and Courteous" Violates Massachusetts Constitution

From today's Massachusetts high court opinion in Barron v. Kolenda, written by Justice Scott Kafker (and dealing with a claim brought under the state constitution's free expression provisions, rather than under the First Amendment): [W]e conclude that the public comment policy of the town of Southborough (town) violates rights protected…

Reason

American evolution: ‘1776’ revisits pivotal moment in US history via diverse, present-day perspective

The oft-rousing and well-truncated book by Peter Stone — celebratory but not without a recognition of the deeply imperfect compromises the union is built on — is wrapped into a standard-issue musical comedy aesthetic.

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Mayor held 'unusual' meetings for developer, jury told

An Ipswich town planner told a corruption trial former mayor Paul Pisasale took more interest in a service station and childcare centre than any other proposal.

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Met cuts season to 18 operas, matching fewest in 4 decades

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season

The Independent UK

Do we need political parties? In theory, they're the sort of organization that could bring Americans together in larger purpose

The 27 million people who watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Feb. 7, 2023, witnessed the spectacle of a family divided, with boos and cheers perfectly arranged along party lines.

The Conversation

As the nation has changed, so has the State of the Union speech

In the era of primetime coverage, the State of the Union offers a rare opportunity for a president to address — and for members to be seen by — a truly national television audience.

WEKU

The incredible story of how 30 years ago Scott Simpson became Bill Murray’s longtime partner at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

"No one wanted to play with him, and I just thought, you know what, I don't care what I shoot."

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Box sets galore: New collections from David Bowie, Wilco, Joni Mitchell, Ahmad Jamal and more

How broad and narrow is the market for CD and vinyl box sets?

Tribune News Service

Judging the judges

On the literary merits of NZ jurists

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Gift ideas for the holidays that are music critic-approved

The gift of giving is welcome year-round, but perhaps never more than as the holidays approach. Our array of top picks should help brighten the season.

WEKU

Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer

Adams' historical importance is often overlooked because he didn't keep copies of his own letters. Stacy Schiff's superb new biography explores his crucial role in inciting the American Revolution.

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In the Broadway musical '1776,' the revolution is in the casting

This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, nonbinary and trans — people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.

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Review: Broadway's '1776' is at war with its own material

NEW YORK — As directed by by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus, the revival of the 1969 musical “1776,” which opened last week at the Roundabout Theatre, is the latest entry in the current trend of blowing up the baked-in optimism of the American musical theater.

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A love of the Brokenback range drove a Hunter Valley artist to create a poignant body of work

The intimate exhibition space of a former corridor in the old section of Maitland Regional Art Gallery has been filled with another level of intimacy.

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Economist alleges corporate watchdog ASIC is only investigating tiny proportion of complaints

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has experienced years of upheaval and a heavy workload after the banking royal commission. An economist's analysis suggests the independent body is only investigating a fraction of complaints.

WEKU

Facts come to the rescue in the age of gaslighting

The search for truth is complicated: There are many versions of it, many disagreements about what it even means. The idea of fact is something we feel better prepared to defend on objective grounds.

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Igor Levit takes on Tristan; an ideal John Adams primer

Levit ranges from Wagner to Henze with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, while Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich celebrate their artist-in-residence

Newcastle Herald

What's on this weekend at Hunter galleries

Art Systems Wickham Infinite Never Never, by Rebecca Rath. Until September 18. Blackstone Gallery In The Lap of the Gods, Frances Johnston, until September 24. Curve Gallery Jane Lander, Zoe Tjanavaras, Amy Vidler. Charlestown Library Portraits of Crime, by Damien Linnane, explores how we judge the action of past criminal…

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The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

Daily Record

MOVIE REVIEW: We rock out to spellbinding horror 'Hellbender'

Family affair is peculiar beast with energetic tunes and endearing chemistry between real-life mother and daughter.

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