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Antony and the Johnsons: Southern Theatre, Columbus, Ohio

Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, 4 February 2009

TRANSCENDENCE IS a goal in so much music - so much art - that it feels too easy, too common. Maybe that's because contemporary "transcendent art" too often has an abstracted spiritual/religious dimension that gets all wrapped up in spacey New Age-ness and its attendant clichés.

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