Commentary

Cultural Commentary: Wells Fargo — Let Them Eat Art

October 3, 2016
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Is truth and beauty served when the arts just take the money from the big banks and run?

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Music Commentary/Preview: 2016 Fall Orchestral Season Overview

September 14, 2016
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In the six years I’ve now been reviewing for the Fuse, I can honestly say that the 2016-17 season looks to be one of the liveliest in recent memory.

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Arts Commentary: When You Think Things Can’t Get Worse — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

September 1, 2016
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The loss of arts criticism means severe economic challenges for arts and culture down the food chain.

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Music Commentary: The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

August 27, 2016
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If any of you are harboring a budding young musician, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.

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Music Remembrance: Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson — Making the Imagination Run

August 22, 2016
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“When you think about music it’s got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.”

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Jazz Performance and CD Review / Commentary: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines” and “Early Americans”

August 17, 2016
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Exposing the jazz impulses in Emily Dickinson’s poetry is not an agenda for the novice.

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Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace

August 5, 2016
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Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.

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Arts Commentary: Lenny Bruce — On the 50th Anniversary of his Death

August 3, 2016
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What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.

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Cultural Commentary: Artwashing — Aiding Derelict Neighborhoods or Abetting Social Inequity?

July 27, 2016
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For the anti-gentrification critics, urban deterioration should be left the way it is.

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