Month: March 2015

Book Review: “Going into the City” — A Restrained Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man

March 31, 2015
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Robert Christgau, the author of 14,000 record reviews, makes the case for expansiveness as the best aesthetic.

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Book Review: Three New Novels Explore the Power of Trauma

March 31, 2015
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A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.

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Film Review: “Salad Days: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”

March 31, 2015
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When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.

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Theater Interview: Actor Marc Labrèche — On Robert Lepage’s “Needles and Opium”

March 30, 2015
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“It is just when we delve deeper into the sorrows of our lives, the sorrows we have all endured, that our humor saves us.”

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Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Amplified

March 30, 2015
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There was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 29, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Dance Interview: The Tamagawa Daigaku Taiko and Dance Group Comes to Town

March 29, 2015
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Boston was first introduced to ensemble taiko in 1975, when members of the Japanese group Kodō crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon and moments later performed.

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Classical Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Gandolfi and Mahler

March 27, 2015
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Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.

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Fuse Performance Review: Z Marks the Spot — Cirque Zíva Wows

March 27, 2015
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The Golden Dragon Acrobats’ Cirque Zíva is part dance, part acrobatics, and 100 percent spectacle.

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Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry” — A Diary of Dreams

March 25, 2015
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Antonio Tabucchi’s fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.

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