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Winter 2025 Appeal — Keep the Fuse Lit!

December 1, 2025
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This year we received the largest single donation in our history — $25,000. That gift inspired us to raise another $25,000 this holiday season to invest in our future.

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a Still Deliciously Daffy Italian Comic Opera from 1769

November 30, 2025
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.

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Classical Album Review: “On Christmas Night” — A Sublime Choral Escape from Holiday Clichés

November 30, 2025
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On Christmas Night is a welcome alternative to the inescapable flood of tiresome holiday songs currently assaulting us from radios and shopping mall sound systems.

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Concert Preview: The Return of the Either/Orchestra at the Regattabar

November 30, 2025
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From the start, “Either/Orchestra” was a nice pun but, with Russ Gershon at the helm, the arrangements were never this or that, but rather this and that.

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Concert Review: Yo-Yo Ma and the Communion of Bach

November 28, 2025
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With youthful vigor, Yo-Yo Ma performed the complete  Bach Cello Suites, intermixing the music with stories of personal success, wishes for future generations, and gratitude for all those who make the Commonwealth function.

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Dance Preview: “Urban Nutcracker” Turns 25

November 28, 2025
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The elements of “Urban Nutcracker” have remained the same over the decades: a mix of classical, street, and global dance genres, buoyed by a medley featuring Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington’s take on Tchaikovsky’s classic score.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 28, 2025
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This week’s poem: Tanya Larkin’s “Alien Life, an Ars Poetica”

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Theater Reviews: Broadway’s Big Revivals — “Ragtime” Reclaims Its Strength, “Chess” Can’t Find Its Footing

November 27, 2025
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Returning musicals take another shot at success – with very different outcomes.

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Concert Review: Pianist Michelle Cann Glistens at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

November 27, 2025
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Not only does Michelle Cann hold a seat in the upper echelon of stellar pianists, but she’s a great storyteller as well.

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