Review

Visual Arts Feature: Artist John O’Reilly — Art History and Private Drama

June 6, 2017
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For John O’Reilly, encountering mental states of disorder and nightmare created a yearning for a kind of clarity.

Film Review: “Casting JonBenet” — Of Crime and Psychodrama

June 3, 2017
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In this attempt to get at the ‘truth,’ the actors don’t play the roles, the roles play the actors.

Rethinking the Repertoire #14 – Sir Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures”

June 2, 2017
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Sea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.

Theater Review: “Ripcord” — Bittersweet Geriatrics

June 1, 2017
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Yes, Ripcord is candied, but there’s just enough astringency blended in to make the sugar sufficiently tangy.

Rethinking the Repertoire #13 – Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto

May 31, 2017
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Samuel Barber: one of the most individual and distinguished voices to emerge in Europe or America during the 20th century.

Book Review: “House of Names” — Back to the Greeks

May 31, 2017
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Colm Tóibín travels back to ancient Greece in House of Names, a vibrant retelling of the tragedy of the House of Atreus.

Jazz CD Review: “Charnett Moffett — Music From Our Soul”

May 31, 2017
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Large parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.

Theater Review: “4000 Miles” — A Perceptive Look at the Generation Gap

May 30, 2017
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4000 Miles is charming, insightful, and moving, an enjoyable anthropological study of contemporary American life across the generations.

The Arts Fuse Mentorship Program: Student Reviews

May 29, 2017
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The program’s goal is to educate young people about writing arts criticism.

Book Review: Denis Johnson’s “California Scheming”

May 28, 2017
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Denis Johnson sees that New Age thinking is a response to something very American, very late-twentieth-century—namely the precariousness of identity.

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