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Eric Fishman

Critics Lab: Our Goal — To Nurture Young Arts Reviewers of the Future

This is the first in a series of pages in which in one of our critics, working with a young person, comes up with an arts review.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bram Philip, Critics Lab, Eric Fishman, Harper Collins, Olivia A. Cole

Music Preview: Music as Metaphor — A Far Cry, a Physicist, and a Composer Reflect on “Gravity”

The music swelled as the early universe spun …

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, Eric Fishman

Poetry Review: “Casting Deep Shade” — On Humanity and the Beech Tree

C.D. Wright has woven a poetic text that mirrors the tangled intimacy between humans and the beech, in all of its violence, its confusion, and its beauty.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: C.D. Wright, Casting Deep Shade: An Amble Inscribed to Beech Trees & Co., Eric Fishman, Poetry

Poetry Review: Poems, Not Artifacts — “New Poets of Native Nations” and a “Poets Playlist” at the Peabody

Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Eric Fishman, Greywolf Press, Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Heid E. Erdrich, Native American Poets Playlist: Poets in the Gallery, New Poets of Native Nations

Poetry Review: “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” — A Playful Polish Epic

In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry., Archipelago-Books, Eric Fishman, Pan Tadeusz, The Last Foray in Lithuania

Reflections and Echoes: Colin Carr Plays the Complete Bach Cello Suites

Overall, this was classy cello playing. Colin Carr relied on, and brought out, the inherent architecture of the Bach suites.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Colin Carr, J.S. Bach Cello Suites

Concert Review: A Healing Space — A Far Cry and the Miró Quartet Present “Loss and Resurrection”

This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Loss and Resurrection, Miro Quartet

Concert Review: The Verona Quartet Takes on Shostakovich, Haydn, and Brahms

The Verona Quartet is certainly worth watching, above all for the intimate way in which they communicate with each other and with the audience.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: The Verona Quartet

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