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1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
Joseph Calleja’s voice is absolutely gorgeous, and he has been compared to the great Golden Age tenors Gigli and Caruso.
The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Today’s Broadway is at its best presenting blockbuster spectacles like Wolf Hall and An American in Paris.
“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”
Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
Tragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
There was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — A Real Tradition, but of What?
The tradition of hybrids is there, for anyone who chooses to use it. Our modern media world makes that tradition accessible in hitherto unimaginable ways.
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