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August Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Antonio Pappano, Arni Cheatham, Ars Organi, Falkner Evans, French Romantic Church Music, Get Yourself Some Happy!, Invisible Words, Isabelle Huppert, Lillias White, Lou de Laâge, Mandalora Music, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Robert James Stove, The Sound of Dreams, white as snow

July Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Rock, Short Fuses Tagged: 3 Pears Gallery, A.C. Wise, András Schiff, Bald, Bill-Marx, by Crosby, Déjà vu, ECM New Series, Elizabeth Chang, Jason M. Rubin, Jonathan Blumhofer, Ken Rush, Kenneth Hamilton, Koki Solo, Libra Records, Michael Ullman, Nash & Young., Natsuki Tamura, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Prima Facie Records, Ralph Locke, Romantic Piano Encores, Simon Critchley, Stills, Transformations, Wendy Darling

June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Amusement Park, Antonine Volodine, Archetypes, Bill-Marx, Framing Britney Spears, Gerald Peary, Hamid Drake, Intakt Records, Irène Schweizer, Jonathan Blumhofer, Neil Giordano, Sérgio and Clarice Assad, Solo Viola, Third Coast Percussion, University of Minnesota Press

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: 2 Cents, Adam Nussbaum, Allen Michie, David Stewart, Douglas Olsen, Enfant Terrible, Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration, Gene Perla, Gene Perla 3 Trios, Harvard University Press, Mark Edmundson, Michael Ullman, Naga, New Deal For Artists, New World Records, Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz, PM Records, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Scott Wheeler, Song of Ourselves, Steve Provizer, Sunnyside, Walt Whitman, Wieland Schultz-Keil’

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Chick Corea, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, I Care A Lot, Plays, Proud Songsters, Susan Miron, Tim Barry, Two Legends

March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief bursts of criticism.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Adam Sherman, Ai Weiwei, Conversations: Ai Weiwei, Damien LeVeck, Ed Meek, How to be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, Jacqui Naylor, Shudder, Steve Provizer, Sy Montgomery, Test Pattern, The Cleansing Hour, The Long Game, Tim Jackson, Triangle Sky

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