The President doesn’t try to drum up easy sympathy for its arrogant anti-hero.
Classical Music Review: The Composer Focus Series Asks — “Mozart?”
This performance of contemporary pieces inspired by Mozart came with a touch of the playfully interrogative.
Music Preview: Lettuce — Creating the Funk of Tomorrow
Lettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..
Fuse Coming Attractions: January 17 through 26 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Concert Review: Boston Artists Ensemble — Chamber Music Done Right
The Boston Artists Ensemble performance was full of bravado, virtuosity, subtlety, and charm.
Film Remembrance: Alan Rickman — An Actor who Embodied Evil, Heartbreak, and Mystery
Rickman was that rare actor whose low-key intensity was punctuated with just enough hilarity or insanity to make his characters unforgettable.
Film Review: “Troublemakers” — Aesthetic Agitation on a Gargantuan Scale
Land art is an outgrowth of the rebellious ’60s; radicalism taking the form of ambitious topographical rearangment.
Fuse Remembrance: Bowie on Film — Ageless Enigmas
Bowie the Legendary Rock Star and Bowie the Fashion Chameleon were flashier, bolder, than Bowie the Cinematic Iconoclast.
Fuse Remembrance: Appreciating David Bowie — A Virtuoso of Intimacy.
I trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.
Music Interview: Tim Jackson — on Robin Lane, The Band That Time Forgot, Johnny D’s, and the End of an Era
“I hope that these new venues still want to book the occasional seasoned musician, because audiences of all ages still love rock and roll.”