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Classical Concert Review: Worcester Chamber Music Society’s “The White House Concert and Beyond” at the Worcester Art Museum

January 16, 2013
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The Worcester Chamber Music Society’s latest concert was inspired by an ambitious concept and it was played with conviction, but the performance was continuously dogged by problems with acoustics.

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Stage Review: A Tangy “Vinegar Tom”

January 15, 2013
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The Whistler in the Dark production does right by the gaunt power of “Vinegar Tom” — if only dramatist Caryl Churchill hadn’t served up such a tidily edifying coven of alleged sorceresses.

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Poetry Review: Flowers for the Motherland — “A Bouquet of Czech Folktales”

January 15, 2013
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In 1853, the Czech scholar Karol Jaromír Erben published “A Bouquet of Folk Tales,” which became a source-book for artists and composers, and “one of the three foundational texts of Czech literature.”

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Poetry Review: The Beautiful Precision of Poet David Ferry

January 14, 2013
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David Ferry’s voice is quiet but never shirks. It admits directly and indirectly that the world is a perplexing place.

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Classical Music Review: Three Autumnal Schubert Sonatas

January 14, 2013
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From the moment he began to play, pianist Paul Lewis established his authority. His performance was spellbinding and eloquent, animated by a respect for precision and rhythmic clarity.

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Fuse Commentary: The Year in Film — 2012

January 14, 2013
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Fuse film critic Tim Jackson picks the best of the past year in movies, a round-up that includes some grievously overlooked documentaries, independent, and foreign films.

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Book Review: Jane Austen’s “Emma” — Aptly Annotated

January 14, 2013
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Editor Bharat Tandon guides us expertly through “Emma,” stopping along the way to augment the text by clarifying usages, concepts, and references that may stump the 21st-century reader.

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Theater Review: Seeing the “Invisible Man”

January 13, 2013
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An adaptor has to make choices, and this theatrical version of “Invisible Man” focuses on the novel’s most straightforward narrative strand.

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Theater Feature: Searching for “Family Happiness”

January 13, 2013
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In this production, director Piotr Fomenko “wanted to explore whether family happiness is even possible, the fight to keep it and the fear of losing it.”

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Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?

January 12, 2013
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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?

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