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Classical Music Preview: The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-2024 Season — Celebrating the Legacy of Serge Koussevitzky

April 26, 2023
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Through fresh new works and a welcome toss-up of pieces commissioned during Koussevitzky’s historic tenure, the BSO’s coming season will honor the fullness of the Russian-born conductor’s legacy.

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Doc Talk: Celebrating Nonfiction Film at the IFFBoston — Seeing Afresh

April 26, 2023
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This is what cinema is all about and these will probably be some of the best movies you will see all year.

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Music Festival Preview: Lowell’s The Town and The City — “A Passion Project”

April 25, 2023
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The Town and the City Festival honors the “spirit of [Jack] Kerouac, a celebration of exploration, discovery, love of life, those things that he wrote about.”

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Author Interview: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph on the Third Reconstruction and Hope for a Multiracial Democracy

April 25, 2023
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Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”

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Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter — Together Again

April 24, 2023
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If Andris Nelsons’s direction revealed one thing, it’s that violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and composer Thomas Adès make a stellar musical pairing.

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Film Review: “Suzume” – Chair Bud

April 23, 2023
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Were the entire film a road tripping adventure between a high school girl and a silly little chair she has to either carry in her arms or lug around in an oversized knapsack then I’d be able to recommend the film with full enthusiasm.

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Music Documentary Review: “Music Under the Swastika” — Uncomfortably Timely

April 23, 2023
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The road to ultimate destruction is lined by spiritual apathy, intellectual carelessness, and moral equivalency.

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Coming Attractions: April 23 Through May 9 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 23, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, 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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Classical Concert Review: Boston Baroque’s “Iphigénie en Tauride”

April 22, 2023
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By Aaron Keebaugh Lithe and economical, Boston Baroque’s superb production of Iphigénie en Tauride proved the old adage that less can be more. Iphigénie en Tauride, an opera in four acts. Libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard. Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Performed by Boston Baroque. Martin Pearlman, conductor. Mo Zhou, stage director. At GBH’s Calderwood Studio,…

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Book Review: “You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent” — Believe It

April 22, 2023
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This is a well-researched and accessible account of how and how often the system locks up the wrong people and keeps them locked up.

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