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Classical Music Feature: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-14 Season — An Appraisal

April 24, 2013
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Next season’s stale programming certainly derives from the BSO’s lack of a music director guiding and shaping the overall course of the season.

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Fuse News: The Worst Job in America — Because It Doesn’t Pay

April 23, 2013
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It’s official. The 2013 jobs report of an organization called CareerCast rated “newspaper reporter” as the worst job in America.

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Fuse News: R.I.P. Richie Havens

April 22, 2013
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There was probably no better summing up of Woodstock Nation than the lines, “Sometimes, I feel, like a motherless child/A long ways from my home.”

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Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 22, 2013
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A movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.

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Jazz News: Thoughts on Wadada Leo Smith’s “Ten Freedom Summers” — Pulitzer Finalist in Composition

April 18, 2013
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Ten Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.

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Fuse News: NEC Celebrates a Legendary Partnership

April 18, 2013
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Pianist Randy Weston and arranger Melba Liston will be honored in a celebratory concert at the New England Conservatory.

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Fuse News Film Review: “Blancanieves” — Silent Film Redux

April 18, 2013
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“Blancanieves” is not quite as charming as “The Artist,” but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.

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Film Review: A Not So “Fierce Green Fire”

April 18, 2013
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This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.

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Fuse News: In Memoriam — Sir Colin Davis (1927-2013)

April 16, 2013
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Indeed, for much of the latter part of his career, Colin Davis was that rarest of breeds, a conductor seemingly without ego, one who made music simply for the love of it.

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Book News: Forget the Insufferable “Mr. Selfridge” — Turn to Zola’s “The Ladies’ Paradise” Instead

April 15, 2013
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Mr. Selfridge drives me nuts because the storyline, the rise of a mercantile empire, calls for edgy  Darwinian conflict rather than paternal benevolence sprinkled with layers of powered soap opera.

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