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Opera Preview: Opera North’s “All Is Calm” — Peaceful Interlude

Opera Preview: Opera North’s “All Is Calm” — Peaceful Interlude

All is Calm juxtaposes the gravity (some might say the idiocy) of war with the simple human gestures that the opposing sides extended to each other during a remarkable cease fire.

By: Susan B. Apel Filed Under: Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: All is Calm, Opera North, Peter Rothstein, Susan B. Apel

Music Feature: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Home for the Holidays

Music Feature: The Tedeschi Trucks Band — Home for the Holidays

The Tedeschi Trucks Band is capping another remarkable year of transition and growth, some of it spurred by tragedy.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Scott McLennan, Susan Tedeschi, Tedeschi Trucks Band

Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Blake Maddux, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, Steve Elman, Susan Miron, Tim Jackson

Coming Attractions: November 17 through December 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

Coming Attractions: November 17 through December 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, Rebekah Bonner, Susan Miron, Tim Jackson

Author Interview: Pulitzer Prize Winner David W. Blight — Speaking of Frederick Douglass in the Witch City

Author Interview: Pulitzer Prize Winner David W. Blight — Speaking of Frederick Douglass in the Witch City

“You can read Frederick Douglass forever and still just encounter new things, new ideas, new passages, new phrases. He’s that kind of writer. It’s like reading Emerson or even Shakespeare.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Preview Tagged: David W Blight, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

Music Preview: “Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly: The Rock ’n’ Roll Dream Tour” — Virtual Presence

Music Preview: “Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly: The Rock ’n’ Roll Dream Tour” — Virtual Presence

Believe it or not, Buddy Holly is on tour with another deceased rock ’n’ roll pioneer — Roy Orbison.

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Base Hologram, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Scott McLennan

Concert Preview: Club Passim Celebrates 60 Years with a Birthday Bash

Concert Preview: Club Passim Celebrates 60 Years with a Birthday Bash

At a time when a number of established music venues in the Boston area have closed, Club Passim continues to thrive, thanks to the loyal grass-roots support it has enjoyed over six decades.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: Club Passim

Music Interview: Musician and Writer Robert Forster — Life Before and After The Go-Betweens

Music Interview: Musician and Writer Robert Forster — Life Before and After The Go-Betweens

Robert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens “were too good for the bloody charts.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: Inferno, Robert Foster, The Go-Betweens

Music Feature: Childsplay — The Last Waltz

Music Feature: Childsplay — The Last Waltz

Childsplay, the celebrated flash-band of fiddlers who have come together around the holidays for more than 30 years, is calling it quits.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Preview Tagged: Bpb Childs, Childsplay

Film Feature: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Not Your Typical Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story

Film Feature: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Not Your Typical Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story

The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: Amy Geller, anti-Semitism, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Chaim Bruk, Gerald Peary, mezuzah, The Rabbi Goes West

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