Month: May 2015

Fuse Opera Preview: Odyssey Opera Presents “The British Invasion”

May 17, 2015
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Taken together, it’s a bracing, provocative, and – perhaps above all – fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Play With Music

May 17, 2015
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Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Mothers & Sons” — Surveying, With Understanding, the Battles Ahead

May 16, 2015
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Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.

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Film Review: “Far from the Madding Crowd” — Made Sappy

May 15, 2015
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Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?

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Film Interview: Talking to Director Lucia Small about “One Cut/ One Life”

May 14, 2015
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The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.

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Book Review: “We All Looked Up” — A Book and Album Where Adolescence Meets the Apocalypse

May 14, 2015
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It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.

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Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness

May 13, 2015
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How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.

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Fuse Visual Arts: Janet Echelman’s Dazzling Aerial Sculpture — For Boston, the Sky’s the Limit

May 13, 2015
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With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.

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Fuse News: 2015 Elliot Norton Awards Announced

May 12, 2015
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Congratulations to the nominees and the awardees.

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Fuse Remembrance: Conceptual Artist Chris Burden — Political But Playful

May 12, 2015
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Chris Burden’s distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.

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