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

November 14, 2021
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As the age of Covid-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Classical Album Review: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 3

November 14, 2021
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Florence Price’s voice and the richness and complexity of an almost-entirely neglected body of symphonic music by Black American composers can be heard in this excellent recording.

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Classical Music CD Review: Hensel & Mendelssohn String Quartets

November 13, 2021
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This is an album of real spirit and vigor, a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded.

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Album Reviews: The Proper Way to Reveal the Sound of the Past

November 13, 2021
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Three releases that do a superb job of preserving and explaining historic recordings.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (November Entry)

November 12, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes John Lee Hooker, Víctor Jara, The Grateful Dead, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes.

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Visual Arts Review: “Ceramics in the Expanded Field” — Playing with Clay

November 11, 2021
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The curator’s intent is to stretch and subvert received notions of ceramics with their overtones of craft and functionality

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Author Interview: David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization and “Making Monsters”

November 11, 2021
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“Making Monsters is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”

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Classical Concert Preview: Symphony Pro Musica Plays Walton, Dawson, and Elgar

November 11, 2021
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This weekend’s concerts all add up to a quintessential Symphony Pro Musica event: a mix of the familiar and unexpected, with various old friends coming by to visit along the way.

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Television Review: “Passing” — The Tragedy of Race and Space

November 10, 2021
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After nearly a century, the fierce psychological nuance of Passing remains as relevant as ever.

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Letter from New York — Dresden Treasures, and Lots of Picasso

November 10, 2021
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New York has come back to life, so there is more art to see than anyone has time to visit or write about.

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