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Fuse Flash: Circus Oz — The Circus From Down Under Astonishes “From the Ground Up”

February 21, 2014
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Circus Oz is not a reinvention of the big top, a la Cirque du Soleil. It is more of a traditional circus updated for modern times.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 21, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Fuse Music Interview: The Boston Jewish Music Festival Returns for Its 5th Year

February 15, 2014
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Boston was once the largest Jewish community in the country without a Jewish music festival — now the five-year-old Boston Jewish Music Festival (BJMF) is one of the most-attended of its kind in the nation.

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Fuse Views: Valentine’s Day Tips for a Long and Successful Marriage

February 14, 2014
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With all the writing lately on marriage and happiness, and this being Valentine’s Day, and at the risk of being presumptuous, allow me share some accumulated wisdom that allegedly has been gained with age and experience.

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Music Preview: Navigating the Headwaters of the Third Stream

February 12, 2014
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NEC is closed tonight but much of the repertoire on this program is also scheduled for a concert on March 6.

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Fuse Dance News: The “Restless Creature” Takes A Rest

February 7, 2014
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Dancer Wendy Whelan will not be appearing under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston as planned.

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Fuse News: Elizabethan Genius Gets Its Due — An Edition of Ben Jonson For the Ages

February 4, 2014
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The “Cambridge Jonson” volumes are available online, and the site is a bibliographical joy to behold, Ben Jonson’s plays, poems, masques, and prose arranged in chronological order and in a searchable format.

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Fuse Appreciation: Philip Seymour Hoffman

February 3, 2014
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In his performances, Philip Seymour Hoffman was able to give enormous depth to the loners, the scoundrels, the lost, the villainous, and the heartbroken.

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Fuse Concert/CD Review: Matt Wilson Quartet plus John Medeski, at Sculler’s

February 2, 2014
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The Matt Wilson Quartet prides itself on variety: the band can play ersatz Indian music, free jazz, and funky rhythm and blues, as well as an occasional touching ballad.

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Fuse Appreciation: The Late Pete Seeger — Creating Music on a Human Scale

February 1, 2014
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One of the more fascinating contributions Pete Seeger made to our collective musical sensibility was the effortless way in which he introduced what we now call “world music” to his audiences.

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