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Coming Attractions: October 31 through November 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 31, 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.

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

October 31, 2021
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New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

Opera Concert Review: Benjamin Britten’s “Curlew River” — From Woundedness to Wholeness

October 31, 2021
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With its wide-ranging textual and musical materials, this “church parable” stands as one of Benjamin Britten’s most striking creations.

Book Review: “Walk With Me” — The Heroism of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 30, 2021
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A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

WATCH CLOSELY: Spooky Season Has Barely Begun

October 29, 2021
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Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.

Jazz Album Review: A Solo Excursion by Master Pianist Edward Simon

October 28, 2021
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One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive. 

Poetry Review: Ruth Lepson’s “on the way” — Basking in the Glow

October 28, 2021
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.

Book Review: “The Notes” of Ludwig Hohl — “Everything Ever Created Was a Fragment.”

October 28, 2021
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Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.

Jazz Concert Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling — Going Through the World with Curiosity

October 27, 2021
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The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.

Book Review: Ohio Bound — “Far From Their Eyes”

October 27, 2021
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This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.

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