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Rock Remembrance: David Lindley, A Splendidly Cavalier Spirit

March 4, 2023
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Electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, saz, oud, Hawaiian guitar, lap steel, fiddle, cittern; if it could be plucked, strummed or bowed, odds are Mr. Dave played it and played it well.

Jazz Remembrance: Tribute to Wayne Shorter

March 4, 2023
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One of the true masters of jazz, Wayne Shorter, passed away during the early hours of March 2. Our writers quickly gathered to express their appreciations of Shorter’s innovations and his long life of constant creativity.

Film Reviews: Golda and Sean at the Berlin International Film Festival

March 4, 2023
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This year’s Berlin International Film Festival launched a couple of films aimed at a mass audience. The results were mixed.

Film Review: “The Quiet Girl” (An Cailín Ciúin) — Childhood Through a Glass, Softly

March 3, 2023
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The Quiet Girl is the first Irish language nominee for the Best International Feature Oscar, and it’s not hard to see why this subdued gem of a film is capturing hearts.

Classical Album Reviews: Gianandrea Noseda and Franz Welser-Möst Conduct Prokofiev

March 3, 2023
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Two takes on the orchestral music of Prokofiev — one impish and unpretentious, the other revelatory.

Book Review: “Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running”

March 3, 2023
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Anyone who cares deeply about cinema owes Jonas Mekas an abiding debt for all that he did for independent American filmmaking.

DocTalk: On the Barricades of Europe — The Boston Baltic Film Festival

March 3, 2023
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The populations in former Soviet Socialist Republics and current NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia know all too well what it’s like to live under Russian subjugation as is seen in a trio of trenchant and timely documentaries.

March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

March 2, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 2, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, “Creeley Song.”

Film Review: “Emily” — Of Moors and Madness

March 1, 2023
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For director Frances O’Connor, the Gothic novelist is an artist who casts off repressive social norms and uses words to evoke (and exorcise) demons of terrible natural beauty.

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