Search Results: Annette

Commentary: Best Jazz (and Other) Recordings of 2017

December 25, 2017
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The range of recordings issued this year was remarkable, both in terms of their instrumentation and their artistic inspiration.

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Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty

July 3, 2015
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So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”

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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: Actors’ Shakespeare Project Serves Up a Genial “School for Scandal”

April 23, 2016
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The School for Scandal hasn’t dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.

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Classical Music Review: O Give Me a Muse of Apollo’s Fire!

November 6, 2011
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The audience went wild after each piece Philippe Jaroussky sang. There were three gorgeous encores, ending with the slow, familiar aria from Handel’s “Xerxes”. Most of the crowd would have been happy to have stayed for more. We knew this was an Apollo’s Fire concert to remember.

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Theater Review: “The Annotated History of the American Muskrat” — Sleepers Awake?

August 10, 2014
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Clocking in at around three hours, the show is a surreal grab bag filled with gags, skits, and sketches, the whole kooky kit and kaboodle tied up (too) neatly in a paranoid ribbon.

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Jazz Remembrance: Ornette is Gone, and Musicians Reacted

June 12, 2015
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The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.

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Coming Attractions: October 9 through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 9, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Coming Attractions: July 14 through 30 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 14, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Album Review: “Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s” — A Rich Centennial Treat

April 18, 2022
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The centenary of bassist/composer Charles Mingus’ birthday is days away and I am listening to the beautifully packaged and processed and richly annotated 3 lps of Mingus’s Lost Album, recorded live at Ronnie Scott’s London club in 1972.

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