Year: 2017

Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

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Classical CD Reviews: Matthias Goerne’s “The Wagner Project” and Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand

December 20, 2017
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Matthias Goerne offers proof that he is the Wagner baritone of the day. And Thierry Fischer’s understanding of Mahler deserves our admiration.

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Reviewer weighs in on #MeToo

December 20, 2017
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Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, Helen Epstein hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway. 

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Television Review: “Wormwood” — Errol Morris’ Brilliant Bricolage

December 20, 2017
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Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 20

December 20, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Dance Review: Assorted Nuts

December 19, 2017
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One thing the traditional Nutcracker doesn’t do is funny, though it can be charming and even amusing.

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Remembrance: Ivan Chermayeff, Distinguished Designer of Prominent Logos — Dead at 85

December 19, 2017
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A graphic designer who created some of the most strategic corporate logos of the 20th century.

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Year-end CD Round-up, Part 2: Jurowski’s Tchaikovsky Symphonies, Strauss in St. Petersburg, Jasper Quartet’s “Unbound,” Walton Symphonies, and Howard Hersh’s Dancing at the Pink House

December 19, 2017
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Highlights include an excellent Tchaikovsky symphony cycle in modern sound and one of the year’s best chamber-music albums.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 19

December 19, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 18

December 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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