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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!
This week, Devon Carney was named Artistic Director of Kansas City Ballet.
While I believe that merely publishing these days is an act of entrepreneurial legerdemain, I direct you to a pair of Canadian poets who have gone one step beyond.
After the critical success of 2011’s “Badlands,” Alex Zhang Hungtai returns with the release of “Drifters/Love is the Devil” — a double album that expresses trauma in two devastating ways — the direct and the atmospheric.
The jazz world says goodbye to a much-loved pianist and to the documentarian of an iconic photo.
Two new albums from BMOP Sound reflect the considerable artistry and vision of Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
A round-up review of new releases from Harmonia Mundi — an invigorating crop of albums.
Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of The Hobbit abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.
Like the great immigrant musicals, “In the Heights” touches on the tension between old and new cultures and generations, finding home, families and their expectations.
Antonio Tabucchi’s “travel book” transcends conventional literary forms: his stories occupy an attractive space between fiction and non-fiction, poetry, biography, short story and journalistic travel piece.
Arts Commentary: The Boston Symphony’s New Humanities Blueprint Makes Sense