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KEEP THE ARTS FUSE LIT! — Our Winter Appeal

December 10, 2019
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Help us continue to go where other arts magazines fear to tread, recognizing under-appreciated classical music, jazz, and dance performances.

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Book Review: Refugee Scholars — “Well Worth Saving”

December 10, 2019
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This is a carefully-researched book of far more than academic interest.

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Opera Review: A Major Opera by Donizetti — Heard for the First Time!

December 10, 2019
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One of Donizetti’s strongest and most original works, has finally been reconstructed and recorded by superb forces under the remarkable Mark Elder.

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Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms

December 9, 2019
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In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.

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Concert Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band — Even Now, Still Evolving

December 8, 2019
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Each concert offered all that the Tedeschi Trucks Band  can do.

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Theater Review: New Rep’s “Oliver!” — Less Boundless Energy, Please

December 8, 2019
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The spirit of Oliver! explodes on stage here, and that is a credit to the ambitions of this company.

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Book Review: “A History of Philosophy” — An Excellent Tour for the Curious

December 7, 2019
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A.C. Grayling’s history is an excellent tour for the curious and a refresher for everyone who had Philosophy 101 and wants to remember why it was so moving at the time.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #21: On Harold Bloom and New Orleans Jazz

December 6, 2019
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Arts Fuse writers Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson discuss the late Harold Bloom.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Pat Falco’s MOCK — A Resonant Statement about Boston’s Affordable Housing Crisis

December 6, 2019
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With MOCK, the artist has made made an exceptionally powerful statement, conceptually and physically, about Boston’s increasingly dire affordable housing predicament.

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Film Review: “Knives and Skin” — Sensual, Surreal, Stunning

December 6, 2019
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Though the story’s events are set in the present, the Gen X music feels right, coming as it does from an era when fear, decadence, and moral hypocrisy also dominated our culture.

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