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Short Fuse Podcast #67: Reflecting on William Faulkner

May 14, 2024
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Dr. Jay Watson, the Howry Professor of Faulkner studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first book William Faulkner published — “The Marble Faun.”

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Dance Review: “Naughty Bits” — Pushing Back on a Culture of Sexual Abuse

May 14, 2024
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Sara Juli has proven herself to be a master of using humor to examine subjects that are uncomfortable and not at all comic. 

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Music Album Review: Josie Lowder’s “Here To Love” — Extraordinary Guitar Playing, Soulful Vocals, and Buoyant Personality

May 14, 2024
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Josie Lowder debut solo album “Here To Love” is more than a reminder of how good she was — it stands as incontrovertible evidence that she has grown as an artist and especially as a songwriter.

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Opera Album Review: “Circé,” A Big Hit from the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival, Now Enchantingly Recorded

May 13, 2024
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The BEMF performed the work in July 2023 in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, to enormous enthusiasm.

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Classical Music Album Review: Mendelssohn’s Complete Symphonies

May 13, 2024
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The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich recording of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies doesn’t cast the composer as a radical, but the effort highlights the strengths of his music and finds ways to put distinctive interpretive stamps on several of these scores.

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Visual Arts Review: A New Fashion Statement from the MFA — Consumer Dreaming and Catwalk Preening

May 12, 2024
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This midsized MFA project is a solid bid for summer foot traffic from the fashionista demographic.

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Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, Intertwined

May 12, 2024
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In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.

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Concert Review: Marc-André Hamelin plays Ives, Hamelin, Schumann, and Ravel

May 11, 2024
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Pianist Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated a total command and control of his materials.

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Film Review: “Evil Does Not Exist” — A Slow-Mo Eco Drama

May 11, 2024
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film is consciously frozen paced to the point of parody.

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Film Review: “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Respecting Simian History

May 10, 2024
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“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Think “I, Claudius” with monkeys, by way of “Lord of the Rings” and “The Searchers.”

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