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Concert Review: Handel and Haydn Society/Bernard Labadie at Symphony Hall

November 11, 2012
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Handel & Haydn Society captured all of this and then some with a vigorous, focused performance that was a marvel of controlled fury.

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Fuse Rock Preview: Locally Yours, The Boston Music Awards Nominees for Rock Artist of the Year

November 11, 2012
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Will You Can Be A Wesley be your pick for Rock Artist of the Year? Who will it be, Boston? Make your Nate Silver-style predictions and let me know what you think!

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Visual Arts Review: Artist Paul Klee — Philosophical Thinker?

November 10, 2012
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The enduring aspect of Paul Klee’s art is its playfulness, which bubbles up even out of this viscous curatorial treatment.

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Theater Review: “Tales From Ovid” — An Embarrassment of Riches

November 9, 2012
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Director Meg Taintor’s demands on her five young actors – three women and two men — are very high, requiring not only daring, but physical stamina and skill, dance training, mime training, fight training, and musicianship as well as dramatic power.

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Poetry Review: “Dialogos” — Superb Poetic Conversations

November 9, 2012
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Translator George Kalogeris’s modernizing does what it should: It brings the poems into the thought-world where modern readers live.

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Fuse Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — “Pretty Old” and “Let’s Dance”

November 8, 2012
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Two impressive documentaries deal with the trials and tribulations of old age and the history of dance in Israel.

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Fuse Movie Review: “Lincoln” — Ken Burns Does It Better

November 8, 2012
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As “Lincoln”‘s end credits roll, you feel vaguely dissatisfied and disappointed that the film never achieves the emotional greatness that it might have in the hands of a different director.

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Movie Review: “Female Helmers” — A Terrific Evening of Shorts

November 7, 2012
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Each film demonstrates a distinct female sensibility as well as a strong and unique stylistic vision.

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Concert Review: Gil Shaham and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Juanjo Mena

November 6, 2012
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Saariaho’s music is often lush and vibrant, to be sure, but it also can lose track of its musical purpose and meander excessively from time to time. Not so in “Circle Map.”

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Fuse Dance Review: A Rousing Tenth Anniversary for Lorraine Chapman, The Company

November 6, 2012
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As a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.

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