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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 6, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 31, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

CD Reviews — “Martin Boykan: Orchestral Works” and “Reza Vali: Toward That Endless Plain” (BMOP Sound)

May 29, 2013
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Two new albums from BMOP Sound reflect the considerable artistry and vision of Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Bartók; Wolfgang Rihm’s Symphonie “Nähe fern”; Tokyo String Quartet plays Dvorak and Smetana; Thea Musgrave’s Chamber Works for Oboe (Harmonia Mundi)

May 29, 2013
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A round-up review of new releases from Harmonia Mundi — an invigorating crop of albums.

Fuse Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Thrills with Debussy, Stravinsky and Schoenberg

May 21, 2013
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The last Chameleon Arts Ensemble performance of this season, “mystic moons and dream music,” promised much, with three famed masterpieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg.

REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?

May 20, 2013
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This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.

Fuse News: Mercury Falls, and Jazz Is Still in the House

May 18, 2013
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The idea of house concerts seems to be getting some legs. The “fabulous world headquarters loft of Accurate Records” again plays host, this time to the eclectic San Francisco band, Mercury Falls.

Theater Review: A Skewed and Silly “Pirates of Penzance” Sets Sail

May 17, 2013
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Despite its aura of “Gidget Goes Hawaiian,” and the profusion of cute props like rubber duckies and ukeleles, The Hypocrites’ production is smart enough not to mess (too much) with the original score and lyrics.

Fuse News: Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director-designate Andris Nelsons

May 16, 2013
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The selection of Andris Nelsons, 34, as the BSO’s next chief is an inspired choice and bold, and not just because of his age.

Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”

May 11, 2013
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In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.

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