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Fuse Concert Review: Rockport Chamber Music Festival Presents Death and the Emersons

June 10, 2014
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The challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 8, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Fuse Concert Review: Progressive Rock — Seven Hours of Celebration

June 2, 2014
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Even by the standards of prog shows, which only get close to mainstream if a Yes or Rush is headlining, these bands were largely from the underground.

Fuse Book Review: A Volume That Explains Why Movie Moments Are Memorable

June 1, 2014
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At times, David Thomson’s movie criticism resembles the approach of old-school British critics (the Walter Pater or John Ruskin variety) who didn’t mind occasionally cutting loose from being erudite to waxing lyrical.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 1, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

Film Review: The MFA’s Technicolor Film Festival Ends with Two Gene Kelly Classics

May 30, 2014
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The reason these films are in this series is because of their color, and they do not disappoint.

Homage: Mega Designer Massimo Vignelli Leaves Modernist Design Legacy

May 30, 2014
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The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against ugliness. — the late Massimo Vignelli

Music Commentary: Help Make “Roadrunner” the Official Rock Song of Massachusetts

May 30, 2014
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Bay Staters, be warned – we are living in a state without an official rock song. Luckily, if we pitch in, we can help the government solve this problem.

Visual Arts Review: At MIT — Discovering Hans Scharoun, Architect and Visionary

May 27, 2014
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German architect Hans Scharoun’s compelling story, as both a man and an artist navigating perilous times, has been neglected (aside from architectural historians and seriously informed students) until relatively recently.

TV Review: “Mad Men” Mid-Season Finale — Enjoyable, But Part of an Annoying Waiting Game

May 27, 2014
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It’s sort of like someone snatching the epic novel you’re a few chapters from the end of out of your hands and subsequently run off cackling into the sunset, only to allow you to finish it in a year.

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