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Classical Music Album Reviews: Stewart Goodyear and “Hallelujah Junction”

June 21, 2025
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Pianist Stewart Goodyear livens up a tried-and-true program with works new and unfamiliar; the husband-and-wife team of Lukas Geniušas and Anna Geniushene survey piano music written on these shores, starting in 1932.

Opera Album Review: Finally, Verdi’s Original 1857 Version of “Simon Boccanegra” Gets the Recording It Deserves

June 21, 2025
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The skillful Mark Elder leads a fine cast, including the superb Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas.

Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”

June 20, 2025
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Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.

Film Reviews: Three at the Provincetown Film Festival

June 20, 2025
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Films about relationships are often the best offerings in the Provincetown Film Festival, and several of the narrative films at this year’s go-around were about seeking connection.

Jazz Album Reviews: Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans — Two Indispensable Recordings

June 20, 2025
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Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.

Concert Review: The Chicago Blues Festival — A Reassuring Vision of the Future

June 19, 2025
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This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.

Film Review: “28 Years Later” — World War ZZZZ…

June 19, 2025
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“28 Years Later” is too little, too late.

Classical Music Album Reviews: Ravel/Bach and Bruch & Korngold Violin Concertos

June 19, 2025
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Pianist Yeol Eum Son is more than up to the demands of J.S. Bach and Maurice Ravel; violinist Bomsori brings exquisite balances and shimmering sonority to Bruch and Korngold.

Visual Arts Review: “David Wojnarowicz” — A Partial View of an Activist Artist

June 19, 2025
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The artist’s focus on brutality is present in the show, but the anger and homoeroticism that infused so much of his work are missing.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

June 19, 2025
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This week’s poem: Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s “Al-Shifa”

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