Month: July 2015

Jazz Interview: Scott Robinson’s Out-of-This-World Sound Comes to the Newport Jazz Festival

July 28, 2015
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Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.

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Concert Review: Still Highway Stars — Deep Purple Brings the Faithful Back to 1972

July 27, 2015
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For the better part of two hours at Lynn Auditorium, this version of Deep Purple rocked a sold-out crowd chiefly made up of 50-somethings.

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Visual Arts Review: “Whistler’s Mother” — Up Close and Personal

July 27, 2015
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With invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 26, 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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Book Review: How Science Fared in the Enlightenment — At the Halle Orphanage

July 25, 2015
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Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.

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Fuse CD Review: The Old Ceremony – Not Just Cool By Association

July 25, 2015
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None of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony’s music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one’s own.

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Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art

July 24, 2015
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“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”

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Theater Review: Apollinaire’s “Blood Wedding”: A Rural Tragedy on the Chelsea Waterfront

July 24, 2015
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Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding remains edgier than most American fare in this century.

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Film Review: Boston MFA French Film Festival — “Party Girl,” Gray Panther Division

July 23, 2015
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Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Boston City Hall — A ‘Triumph’ of Brutalism

July 23, 2015
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Urban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall’s mostly concrete facade.

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