Month: January 2016

Classical Album Reviews: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 and Mass in C (SFS Media), Music for Harp (Innova)

January 3, 2016
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Beethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.

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Fuse Remembrance: Kurt Masur (1927-2015)

January 3, 2016
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Kurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: January 3 through 12 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 3, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Book Review: “Vilna My Vilna” — A Moving Memorial to the Lodestar of Yiddish Culture

January 2, 2016
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Abraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.

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Fuse Film Preview: Graham Greene’s “Words in Motion” at the MFA

January 1, 2016
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In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Fuse Film Commentary: Guilty Displeasures — The Hated 8

January 1, 2016
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Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?

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