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Short Fuse Podcast #32: An Interview with Country Singer Teagan Stewart

November 17, 2020
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Host Deanna Costa virtually meets with country musician Teagan Stewart to chat about her latest EP, Taste of My Heartbreak.

Poetry Review: Joshua Bennett’s “Owed” — Paying a Debt, Memorably

November 16, 2020
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Every exquisitely crafted line reflects the pull of a threatening body politic, the gravitational force of history.

Opera CD Review: Verdi’s Opera about Attila the Hun Gets a Taut, Vivid New Recording

November 16, 2020
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Metropolitan Opera stars Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Liudmyla Monastyrska headline a new recording that reveals Verdi operatic mastery five years before Rigoletto.

Jazz Album Review: The Royal Bopsters — A Polished “Party of Four”

November 15, 2020
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This recording displays a mastery of the techniques of the jazz vocal group genre.

Shelter in Place Attractions: November 15 through December 1 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

November 15, 2020
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Film Review: “The Nest” — More Is Less

November 14, 2020
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The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID — Beethoven’s Jesus, Liszt’s Variations on “Norma,” and Janáček’s Animal Opera

November 13, 2020
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Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.

World Music CD Reviews: Percussionist Julian Gerstin and Guitarist Todd Mosby Go Their Own Way

November 11, 2020
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These superb CDs, from musicians who are doing it their own way, on their own labels, celebrate the realms below and above us: the sea and the sky.

Book Review: “Fangirls” — In Praise of Fanatics

November 10, 2020
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Fangirls is a funny and poignant survey of an essential coming-of-age experience.

Pop Review: Gorillaz’s Exhilarating “Song Machine”

November 10, 2020
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Song Machine rejuvenates the band’s core identity; it is the best music Gorillaz has made in a decade.

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