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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 11, 2024
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This Week’s Poem: Douglas Rothschild’s “On the EVE of the THREE KINGS”

Concert Review: Concord Chamber Music Society’s “The Music of Memory” — An Unusually Beautiful Program

January 10, 2024
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It was worth driving over 70 miles of snowy roads to be rewarded with such invigorating heat. Bravo tutti.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Grief Out of Season

January 10, 2024
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The holidays and their aftermath are not always a time of cheer for families. Two recent children’s books provide empathy and understanding.

Book Reviews: The Novels of Argentine Author Claudia Piñeiro — More Than Mysteries

January 8, 2024
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A death is routinely at the center of Claudia Piñeiro’s fiction, but the corpse sparks provocative questions about the way things are, not just an investigation into finding the murderer.

Film Feature: A Preview of Art House Films Coming in 2024

January 8, 2024
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Here’s a peek at 10 art house films that this critic is looking forward to in the first half of 2024.

Film Review: “Society of the Snow” — Unspeakable Tragedy, Unstoppable Survival

January 7, 2024
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This is an epic, breathtakingly moving, and unforgettable film about an elemental fight against cold, starvation, and fear.

Arts Remembrance: Jazz Notables We Lost in 2023

January 7, 2024
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For many years now, the Francis Davis Jazz Poll has collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.

Book Review: “Yves Montand: The Passionate Voice” — An Activist Entertainer

January 7, 2024
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Singer/actor Yves Montand’s life and career is particularly fascinating because they illuminate a telling difference between the mid-20th century political-cultural milieus of France and America.

Doc Talk: Childhood Lost and Found in “Anselm”

January 6, 2024
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This is a magnificent 3D documentary about the thought and work of the acclaimed German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

Jazz Album Review: Rich Halley’s “Fire Within” — Free, But Still Together

January 6, 2024
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This doesn’t sound like any other quartet I know.

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