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Visual Arts Review: The Dazzling Vodou Flags of Myrlande Constant

March 12, 2023
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It is stunning to see these flags of beads and sequins on cloth, and the adjectives keep on coming — hypnotic, baroque, beguiling, hallucinatory.

Coming Attractions: March 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 12, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Classical Music Album Review: Bamberger Symphoniker’s “Liebestod” — Anything But Sleepy

March 12, 2023
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Don’t let the redundancy of much of this album’s repertoire dissuade you. On all the vital metrics, Liebestod delivers

Film Review: “Living” — Ode to Joy

March 11, 2023
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Featuring a transcendent performance by Bill Nighy, Living inspires viewers to look inward, and then outward, gently begging us to muster whatever power we have to seize the day.

Album Review: A Past Fit for the Future –“Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium”

March 11, 2023
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Projects such as Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium extricate the resilient voice of the people from the cacophony of current ideological intervention.

Classical Album Review: Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright”

March 11, 2023
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Missy Mazzoli’s scoring is generally airy and virtuosic, yet Dark with Excessive Bright doesn’t seem to add up to more than the sum of its parts.

Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability

March 10, 2023
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.

Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Davis, Dawson, and Bonds

March 10, 2023
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While balancing the scales of justice can be difficult work, the effort is an important act of generosity, even love.

Television Review: “History of the World, Part II” — D Grade “History”

March 10, 2023
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Hulu’s History of the World, Part II — the damn thing isn’t funny.

Book Review: “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness” — No Way Out?

March 10, 2023
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Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.

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