Commentary

Fuse Commentary: Farewell, Hollywood Express

June 10, 2015
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Hollywood Express is closing at the end of July. Movies will be distributed by Cloud. Have you ever tried talking to the Cloud?

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Film Commentary: Tax Break for MA Filmmakers First — Hollywood a Far Second

June 10, 2015
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Many of the films being made in Massachusetts are by independent Massachusetts filmmakers, most of them documentarians. Why is nobody talking about how to subsidize them via the tax credit?

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Music Commentary: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — A Coda without a Finale

June 3, 2015
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What we know of mass-market choice suggests that the more choices a person has, the more likely it is that the person will be dissatisfied with any one choice.

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TV Commentary: A Fan’s Meditations on the Finale of “Mad Men”

May 29, 2015
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People bonded with the product Mad Men was selling, but what were they falling for?

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Zebra in the Room

May 22, 2015
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Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.

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Classical Music Commentary: On Andris Nelsons’ First Season in Boston and a Look Ahead at 2015-16

May 18, 2015
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By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part Two

May 11, 2015
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I would like to think that there are more composers working today who think of themselves as beyond category.

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Fuse Commentary: Five Minutes With NEA Chairman Jane Chu

May 6, 2015
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God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One

May 4, 2015
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Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Balancing Acts at Symphony Hall

April 27, 2015
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What makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.

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