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Rethinking the Repertoire #2: Anna Clyne’s “Night Ferry”

October 5, 2015
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Night Ferry proves to be an ambitious, absorbing score, filled with music of great color, vitality, and expression.

Visual Arts Review: Mark Pharis and George Mason — Beautiful Micro-Infusions of Chaos

October 5, 2015
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The pieces in this exhibition are apt examples of just how smart and complex purely ‘decorative’ objects can be.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 4, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Fuse Rock Interview: Dave Davies — Playing the Kinks Klassics

October 4, 2015
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In this interview Dave Davies discusses his solo show and gives us the latest on the ongoing Kinks intrigues.

Film Review: “Breathe” — French Teens and the Sins of the Parents

October 3, 2015
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Complex and nuanced, Breathe thankfully owes little to our current assembly line of teen angst flicks.

Theater Review: “Einstein’s Dreams” — Time After Time

October 3, 2015
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Wesley Savick not only does a fine job of adapting Alan Lightman’s text, but in his role as director he squares the circle.

Concert Review: BSO’s Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff

October 2, 2015
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The BSO had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe, and they took some time to regain their sea-legs.

Book Review: The Blissful “Botched-Night Splendor” of Tram 83

October 2, 2015
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Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.

Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy

October 1, 2015
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Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.

Visual Arts Review: Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums — Mingling the Mundane and the Sublime

October 1, 2015
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The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists

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