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If you call a building 'Gehryesque,' even people who don't follow architecture closely will know what you mean. It is a building by Frank Gehry, the world's most famous living architect, and it probably looks like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a curved and sinuous space wrapped in Gehry's trademark shimmering titanium. Few architects are so easily reducible to a visual idea, and so completely defined by their name and their style.

But as two new buildings open -- one a library at Princeton University, the other an expansion of a major art museum in Toronto -- it's clear that the biggest threat to Gehry's legacy may be the Gehry brand itself. As the architect ages -- he will turn 80 in February -- and as observers attempt to sum up his career and project his legacy, there is a growing sense that his most acclaimed work, buildings made in the style of Bilbao, have turned out to be dead ends. Rather than open up new possibilities for the architect, they seem to have left him in a rut. And as his most recent projects suggest, Gehry's best work today may be his least 'Gehryesque.'

Sensory overload is a routine fact of life; sometimes there is just too much to look at in too little time, or the message of a piece is overpowered by theatrics.

What are the odds of two string quartets from Boston playing the identical two works 10 days apart in the Berkshires? We can leave that question to the statisticians.

ANNANDALE - As the holidays approach, an opportunity is nearing to channel the warm feelings they bring into a good cause.

Unlike most concert pianists with international careers, Frederic Chiu is committed to teaching, but not in the usual sense.

Life has come full circle for Paula Bigboy. An Ashland native, she headed out East for training.

The head of the economics department at Bard College was arrested Friday for growing marijuana at her Gallatin home.

By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH - The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth has a delightful way of making music.

Many in the music world call Leon Botstein a maverick - a long-time college president, scholar, musicologist, and historian who also maintains a busy international career as an orchestral conductor with both ...