See, hear, read: our local experts share the books, music and movies they’re craving this month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases
“Ever since the late 1980s, somebody has been embedding tiles displaying cryptic messages about Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and the planet Jupiter in city streets all over the U.S. In 2005, the artist Justin Duerr began an exhaustive search for that somebody, and his quest was documented by director Jon Foy. The resulting film is a gripping investigative documentary—one of the best of the year.”
—Mark Hanson Staffer at Bay Street Video
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
directed by Jon Foy
(Jan. 31)
“In 1703, Antonio Vivaldi was given the position of maestro di violino at the Ospedale Della Pietà in Venice. The Pietà, ostensibly an orphanage for girls, was also a centre of music and education, and Vivaldi composed some of his most famous vocal and string pieces for its talented young residents. This album features a great selection of these works sung by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and played by the Florilegium ensemble, specialists in the Baroque repertoire.”
—John Holland Manager of L’Atelier Grigorian
Vivaldi: Sacred Works for Soprano and Concertos
(Dec. 6)
“In the 1950s and ’60s, the book editor and publisher Richard Seaver propelled a host of underexposed, rabble-rousing writers into the mainstream. In his posthumous memoir, The Tender Hour of Twilight, Seaver reveals how he defied social and literary convention by supporting the beat poets and authors like Samuel Beckett and Malcolm X. It’s a fitting farewell from a man who championed maligned works that have since become a kind of alternative canon.”—Benjamin Walsh Staffer at Nicholas Hoare
The Tender Hour of Twilight
by Richard Seaver
(Jan. 6)
(Illustrations by Mia Overgaard; bottom photograph courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“In 1703, Antonio Vivaldi was given the position of maestro di violino at the Ospedale Della Pietà in Venice. The Pietà, ostensibly an orphanage for girls, was also a centre of music and education, and Vivaldi composed some of his most famous vocal and string pieces for its talented young residents. This album features a great selection of these works sung by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and played by the Florilegium ensemble, specialists in the Baroque repertoire.”
—John Holland Manager of L’Atelier Grigorian
Vivaldi: Sacred Works for Soprano and Concertos
(Dec. 6)
“In the 1950s and ’60s, the book editor and publisher Richard Seaver propelled a host of underexposed, rabble-rousing writers into the mainstream. In his posthumous memoir, The Tender Hour of Twilight, Seaver reveals how he defied social and literary convention by supporting the beat poets and authors like Samuel Beckett and Malcolm X. It’s a fitting farewell from a man who championed maligned works that have since become a kind of alternative canon.”
—Benjamin Walsh Staffer at Nicholas Hoare
The Tender Hour of Twilight
by Richard Seaver
(Jan. 6)
(Illustrations by Mia Overgaard; bottom photograph courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux){kind=link}