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Classical Concert Review: Rachel Barton Pine’s Brahms Resonates at the Gardner

September 17, 2026
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With Matthew Hagle at the piano and a storied 1742 Guarneri in hand, violinist Pine found both familial warmth and dramatic urgency in three Brahms sonatas.

Concert Preview: Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs: A Heartbreaker’s Vital Second Act

September 17, 2026
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The former Heartbreaker brings a deepening songbook, a crack band, and new material from “Mission of Mercy” to Beverly’s Cabot.

Concert Review: Rush Returns with a New Drummer, Old Fire, and Renewed Purpose

September 17, 2026
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At TD Garden, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson honored Neil Peart’s legacy without trying to replace him, as Anika Nilles powered a revitalized, emotionally resonant version of Rush through two distinct marathon sets.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 17, 2026
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This week’s poem: Chuck Stebelton’s “A Peony For Liu Yuxi”

Jazz Album Reviews: Two Recordings, Two Homelands, One Expansive Musical Vision

September 17, 2026
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Claudia Acuña reconnects Chilean roots with American jazz on “Ave de Luz,” while Jorge Drexler explores love, technology, politics, and dance on “Taracá.”

Poetry Review: In “Precisely Now,” Lawrence Joseph’s Prophetic Fury Meets Love’s Fragile Serenity

September 17, 2026
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A lawyer-poet’s arguments against war, racism, plutocracy, and despair are sharpened by moments of sensual attention and stubborn devotion.

Film Festival Review: At Camden, Technology Becomes a Tool for Memory, Mourning, and Connection

September 16, 2026
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In films about Franco’s disappeared, AI companions, Iranian exile, and an Indian South African family’s buried history, the Camden International Film Festival finds digital—and analog—means of restoring bonds fractured by violence, loss, and time.

Book Review: “Deserted” — How the Local News Crisis Is Devastating Rural Communities

September 16, 2026
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By Dan Kennedy Social change and corporate greed are destroying newspapers in small-town America. What happens to the people left behind? Deserted: Life Without Local News in Rural America by Nick Mathews. University of Illinois Press, 168 pages, $110 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Local news is in crisis everywhere, but the challenge is more daunting in…

Classical Music Review: Flutes, Stones, and Ecstasy — Terry Riley’s “The Holy Liftoff”

September 16, 2026
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Claire Chase and her collaborators make a persuasive, vivifying case for Terry Riley’s hourlong score of freewheeling fantasy, grief, birdsong, and release.

Visual Arts Review: Gloucester Light, Lasting Friendship — Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko

September 15, 2026
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The Cape Ann Museum’s revelatory exhibition shows how Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko turned the Gloucester shore into a language of abstraction.

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