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Arts Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story

November 18, 2012
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Isaiah Sheffer’s lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.

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Concert Review: “A Score To Settle” — A Monodrama About A Harpist and Her Seductive Slavedriver

November 17, 2012
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Why, Rita Costanzi asks incredulously, do harpists, albeit occasionally, marry other harpists: “Does the word masochist mean anything to you?”

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Movie Review: “My Dad is Baryshnikov” at the BJFF

November 17, 2012
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The film asks: what are you going to believe, the facts or your lying eyes? The truth is that we do not always want to confess.

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Visual Arts Review: COLLISION18:present — The Expanding Range of Cyberarts

November 17, 2012
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The more cerebral visitor may leave “Collision18:present” wondering if, like the classic definition of what constitutes pornography, ‘cyberart’ is firmly situated in the eye of the beholder (or of the curators).

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Concert Review: Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adés

November 16, 2012
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With “In Seven Days,” Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the past, even as he freely refers to archaic compositional forms.

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Theater Review: A Magnificent “Betrayal”

November 16, 2012
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The Huntington Theatre Company is hosting an exemplary revival of Harold Pinter’s fascinating 1978 work, thanks to the spot-on direction of Maria Aitken.

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Poetry Review: Yvan Goll’s “Dreamweed” — Visions of a Shape-shifter

November 16, 2012
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Yvan Goll may be the great shape-shifter, the Zelig, of twentieth-century poetry.

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Fuse Movie Reviews: BJFF Short Film Competition & “Life in Stills”

November 15, 2012
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A collection of short films and a documentary at The Boston Jewish Film Festival serves up plenty of decision, determination, devotion and delight.

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Book Interview: Serbian Writer David Albahari — Letting Loose the Leeches

November 14, 2012
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By Bill Marx Arts Fuse: Tell me how Leeches came about, given how different it is from your other books, at least those in translation. David Albahari: It is different from other books of mine. But then, there were several things that made me, in the end, write the book. First of all, I wanted…

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Jazz Review: Jason Moran and Bandwagon Roll into Worcester, MA

November 13, 2012
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In any piece, the remarkable pianist Jason Moran might go to the very edges of the harmonic movement, until he on the verge of free jazz.

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