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Ralph P. Locke

Classical Album Review: Allen Shawn — An American Composer of Vivid and Varied Imaginings

Allen Shawn is one of the great composers of piano music in America today, with seven piano sonatas, various suites and shorter pieces. An astounding concerto of his has been recorded by the remarkable Ursula Oppens.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Shawn, Fantasia Aria-Caprice Summer Suite and In Memory Of, Improvisation Diary 2020, Maxine Neuman, Piano music

Jazz Album Review/Commentary: “Don Quixote’s Adventures in the World of Jazz” — Is Jazz intrinsically Quixotic?

It’s hard to think of music that is more foolishly impractical than jazz, even with its pursuit of lofty ideals.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Cervantes, Dianne Reeves, Don Quixote, Hans Christian Hagedorn, Olympians, Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orkest

Television Review: Season Two “Schmigadoon!” — Even More Boffo

Rejoice, my fellow musical theater geeks, Apple TV’s Schimgadoon! is once again taking center stage.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Apple TV, Sarah Osman, Schmigadoon!

Book Review: Jess Walter — The Best Short Story Writer in 21st Century America?

Jess Walter is a writer capable of inspecting humanity’s foolishness and foul play, but he is rarely unkind to his dimmest characters. Even sociopaths get to explain what is going on in their minds.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: american short stories, Jess Walter, The Angel of Rome, The Cold Millions, We Live in Water

Jazz Concert Review: Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science — Solid Music and Message

Terri Lyne Carrington, on her home turf (she’s a native Bostonian and holds several positions at Berklee, including being founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice), augmented her six-piece band with three guests.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Débo Ray, Jon Garelick, Terri Lyne Carrington, Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Here’s this week’s poem, “Second Spring Morning”.

By: John Mulrooney Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: John Mulrooney, Poetry, Second Spring Morning, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux

Film Review: A Dispatch from the 23rd Annual Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 1 of 2)

Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Ferrier, Haven Lee Harris, Mister Organ, Moon Garden, Nightsiren, Quentin Dupieux, Smoking Causes Coughing, Tereza Nvotová, The Traveler in Spaghetti Junction, Tyler Rainey

Theater Review: “K-I-S-S-I-N-G” – A Refreshing Reflection on Black Love  

The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.

By: Olivia Sutton Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Dawn M. Simmons, Front Porch Arts Collective, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Lenelle Moïse

Film Review: Mass Murder, the Prequel — “Measures of Men” Exposes Germany’s Bloody Colonial Past

The film’s depictions of race-based massacres are sure to make Germans uncomfortable — as preludes to the Shoah.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Lars Kraume, Measures of Men

Opera Album Review: A Major German Baroque Opera — Reinhard Keiser’s “Ulysses” Gets a Spiffy Recording

Photo: Anton Saecki.

All in all, an ear-opening introduction to an important opera composer — and to the little-known tradition of German-language (with Italian touches) Baroque opera.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Antonius Adamske, Coviello, German Baroque, Reinhard Keiser, Ulysses

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