Month: March 2015
The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.
Read MoreNew England’s oldest continuously-active opera company brings to Boston a rare performance of one of Tchaikovsky’s less-familiar operatic scores.
Read MoreEach piece is so different from the others in Shades of Sound that the evening provides something for everyone, giving the company a chance to showcase its phenomenal technique.
Read MoreWinter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
Read MoreThe Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Read MoreThe problem is that John August’s book for the musical lacks most of what made his screenplay for the 2003 film so emotionally resonant for so many.
Read MoreFrench writer Pascal Quignard strives to peer beyond, or behind, what psychoanalysts typically rationalize as the primal parental realities.
Read MoreNew York and Paris both respected innovation, but Paris demanded that the new have a certain style.
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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1923-1955
This first group of mavericks all have their roots in the 1920s, but they demonstrate that George Gershwin’s way wasn’t the only way.
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