Fuse Book Review: Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Me and You” — a lightly charming, digestible morsel
Italian writer Niccolò Ammaniti usually writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy. “Me and You,” a slender effort in all respects, covers this ground as well, with the difference that fourteen-year-old protagonist Lorenzo Cumi is from an affluent Roman family.
Fuse Concert Review: Cantata Singers Warble an “Astonished Breath”
The Cantata Singers approached both works with the sensitivities that each required. Music Director David Hoose retained the intensity of the music through his economic and unpretentious, but insistent, conducting.
Fuse Interview: S.T. Joshi on Ambrose Bierce — The Underappreciated Genius of Being Grim
Bierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at power mad corporations is worth an admiring look.
Fuse Stage Interview: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman on Directing a Tragicomic “Art”
In “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
Fuse Concert Review: The BSO Handles a Last Minute Cancellation with Aplomb
Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, is a big man who conducts with big gestures. In the first half of “The Rite of Spring” I wasn’t quite sure if his podium mannerisms (which culminated in jumping jacks during the concluding “Dance of the Earth”) were helpful or distracting.
Fuse Film Review: The Hilarious Hells of Reza and Polanski
As in the plays of Harold Pinter, Reza realizes that violence seethes underneath our words; our language betrays our better nature.
Fuse Poetry Review: Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Divided Self
Certainly part of the power of Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry resides in how, having established a jagged consciousness, he leaves us in between—in a world full of questions that are not easily resolved.
Arts Fuse Preview / Commentary: Jason Moran’s Monk Project
So Jason Moran has decided to re-create something that is already a pinnacle of a master’s work –- something that could hardly be improved on. You could be expected to ask Why? and How?
As a dancer, Pina Bausch was the presiding spirit of speechlessness. She had the macabre body of an anorexic, but her matchstick arms communicated entire inner worlds.
Pina, a 3-D documentary by Wim Wenders. In select U.S. theaters now, opening in Boston at the AMC Boston Common January 20, 2012.
By Debra Cash.
What happens when a celebration is transformed, by awful necessity, into a memorial?
A scene from PINA, a documentary directed by Wim Wenders
German filmmaker Wim Wenders had been discussing a collaborative project with his friend, choreographer Pina Bausch, for 20 years. She regularly teased him about how procrastination and competing offers were burying his good intentions. It was one of those “one day we’ll do it” dreams—we all have them—that never seemed to get off the ground.
Then, in 2007, Wenders caught a screening of the 3-D concert film made by the rock band U2. Wenders would later say that he was elated. Finally, here were the tools he felt he needed to do justice to Bausch’s work. The two artists mapped out a proposed repertory and scouted for locations—German theaters, windowed galleries, urban traffic circles shadowed by monorail lines, the edge of an open pit with a long view to the horizon—and scheduled a shoot featuring the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal, which Bausch had led since 1973. Continue reading »
 Fuse Book Review: “The Secret in Their Eyes” — An Impressive Work of ArtThe novel is a brilliant psychological thriller, and several other things as well — a very quiet love story, a narrative of a remarkable friendship between two men, and an exploration of the corruption rampant in Argentine politics in the late 60s and 70s. |
 Fuse Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees. |
 Coming Attractions in Underground Music: January 2012The latter half of January brings several outstanding underground music shows to Boston. |
 Fuse TV Review: Thoughts on the Golden Globes and Its TV AwardsArts Fuse TV Critic Molly Jay thinks that the Golden Globes telecast was a dud, but that the group’s TV awards were mainly on target. |
 Coming Attractions in Jazz: Winter PreviewIs it winter? You wouldn’t know it by the weather, or by the rich array of jazz performances coming up between now and the end of March. |
 Fuse Concert Review: Concord Chamber Players and Jessica ZhouIn a nice twist, no piece on the Concord Chamber Players program was written before 1907, and that oldest piece came from a fine composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose music has fallen somewhat by the wayside since his death in 1922. |
 Fuse Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death. |
 Fuse Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art. |
 Fuse Concert Review: Admiring New York’s Green Mountain ProjectGreen Mountain Project’s performance was music making at its best, historically informed, musically revealing, and sensitively and energetically performed — one could not ask for more. |
 Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2012The year kicks off with few unusual productions — companies are depending on proven New York hits, such as the Yasmina Reza duo, the Tony award-approved “Red,” and “Green Eyes,” though the Tennessee Williams curio tantalizes. |
 Coming Attractions: Set the Tempo for 2012 — Music to Kick off the New Year in Boston and BeyondWhile many critics decried 2011 as a musical wasteland, New England residents can allow auld acquaintance to be forgot in 2012 with the cornucopia of music that’s coming to the Northeast. Warm up with these winter events … |
 Coming Attractions in Film: January 2012This month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England. |
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