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Revelations continue: a composer best known for his sonatas and concertos (the Four Seasons) is a master of vocal music as well.
Sometimes works that major artists withheld — like songs that are not deemed worthy of release —are best kept in the vaults.
Paul Fisher’s back-and-forth tease about John Singer Sargent’s sexuality starts out as intriguing, then becomes distracting, and finally irritating as the biographer never quite closes in on his targets.
The Boston Artists Ensemble found the tenderness and understated grace of Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 2.
A.R.T Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Jeffrey L. Page are at the helm of this well-meaning but irritating revival.
The struggle is to define what the problem is – and to allow the questions to have big, destabilizing, and more honest answers.
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.
Classical Concert Review: Radius Ensemble — A Vivid Musical Journey, Filled with Solace and Grandeur
The stormy exuberance of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G major inspired one of the many highlights of this mostly auspicious night.
In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.
Book Review: “Realigners” — Stuck in the Middle
In the end, the historical cavalcade Timothy Shenk presents doesn’t tell us much about how America ended up in such straits or how it will pull out of them, if at all.
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