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Classical Albums Reviews: Seong-Jin Cho and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Play Ravel

March 21, 2025
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A pair of pleasant traversals of the French master’s complete piano music, or thereabout, from the still-relative-newcomer Seong-Jin Cho and the established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Author Interview: Roberta Silman — Taking Up “Heart-work”

March 20, 2025
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“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 20, 2025
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This week’s poem: Gloria Monaghan’s “The Catbirds”

Theater Review: “The Inspector” Makes a Wildly Amusing Call

March 19, 2025
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The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.

Children’s Book Reviews: Accepting and Appreciating Others

March 19, 2025
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Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.

Television Review: “The Righteous Gemstones” — Still Misbehavin’

March 19, 2025
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The fourth and final season of Danny McBride’s demented comedy comes to a satisfying conclusion.

Classical Album Review: Semyon Bychkov and Paavo Järvi Conduct Mahler

March 19, 2025
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Semyon Bychkov supplies an extraordinarily well-played account of Mahler’s Third; Paavo Järvi’s version of Mahler’s Fifth avoids the more idiosyncratic excesses of Leonard Bernstein’s superb 1987 Vienna recording.

Visual Arts Review: A Fruitful Exchange — “Believers: Artists and the Shakers”

March 18, 2025
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The exchange proved to be as fruitful for the artists as it was for the Shakers.

Book Review: “After Spaceship Earth” — Seriously Spaced-Out

March 18, 2025
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In her stimulating book, Eva Díaz presents more than 30 conceptually minded artists who “reconsider how the applications of technologies used in near and outer space, once billed as progressive and exploratory, are today rife with negative effects such as resource depletion and privatization, economic inequality, and racial and gender domination.”

Concert Review: Rolling Thunder — The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Ray Chen

March 18, 2025
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Violinist Ray Chen and the BSO delivered one of the most seismic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto that I’ve heard.

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