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Film Commentary: Scorsese and Cinema — Before and After “After Hours”

July 31, 2023
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This shaggy dog story, set in the bowels of Manhattan, in the yet to be gentrified bohemian enclave of SoHo, presented an opportunity for Martin Scorsese to return to bare-bones filmmaking.

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

July 30, 2023
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Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: “Talk to Me” — Hand of Glory

July 30, 2023
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Despite the lack of background or explanation for the occult item at the center of “Talk to Me,” I found it relatively easy to suspend my disbelief and become caught up in the story’s momentum.

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Classical Album Review: Rautavaara & Martinů Piano Concertos

July 30, 2023
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Move over, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók: the pantheon of great Third Piano Concertos is growing.

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Theater Review: “Macbeth” — Rousing Mayhem on the Boston Common

July 29, 2023
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This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”

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Classical Album Review: Charles Villiers Stanford’s “Requiem”

July 29, 2023
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This new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.

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Book Review: The Allman Brothers’ “Brothers and Sisters” — The Album that Defined the 70s?

July 28, 2023
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.

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Classical Music Album Review: John Corigliano’s Piano Music

July 28, 2023
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An album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.

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Concert Review: Billy Strings and Band — Always Hitting the Musical Mark

July 27, 2023
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The guitarist led his razor-sharp band through two sets steeped in bluegrass that, at any given moment, could erupt into psychedelic jams, old-school country, metallic thrashing, or jazzy forays.

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Classical Music Album Review: Violinist Randall Goosby Plays Concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price

July 27, 2023
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Randall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.

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