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Arts Remembrance: At 40, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’s “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls” Still Enthralls

April 23, 2021
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Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.

Theater Review: “Play On! Othello” — A Painful and Invigorating Update

April 22, 2021
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You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.

Book Review: “Cheese, Wine, and Bread” — On the Menu, Confession and Fermentation

April 21, 2021
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The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.

Dance Review: “Postcards from the Front” — A Pandemic Time Capsule

April 20, 2021
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The 51-minute piece represents a digital time capsule. It comprises 16 short episodes — reflections in movement of lives caught inside the pandemic — crafted by dance-maker collaborators.

Short Fuse Podcast #38: Cultural Concierge — Jesse Kornbluth’s Lens on the Oscars

April 19, 2021
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Pop a bowl of popcorn, pour coke over a tall glass of ice, and listen to author and screenwriter Jesse Kornbluth’s irreverent, amusing take on the Oscars.

Theater Review: “Mud Season Mystery: The Lodger” — The Game’s Afoot, On Zoom

April 19, 2021
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Director Jess Chayes has done all that is humanly possible to stage a lively live production under Zoom constraints.

Jazz CD Review: Jim Waller Big Band — “Bucket List”

April 19, 2021
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This is one of the best traditional big band records you’ll hear this year, or maybe this decade.

Shelter in Place Attractions: April 18 through May 4 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

April 18, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Short Fuse Podcast #37: Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the New Museum, Talks about “Grief and Grievance”

April 18, 2021
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Podcast host Elizabeth Howard talks to the curator who helped conceived of the powerful exhibition “Grief and Grievance,” in which Black artists bear witness to decades of their own challenging experiences.

Classical Album Review: “French Music for the Stage”

April 18, 2021
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There’s much to enjoy here and admire, both in the performances and the selections on hand, which hardly dwell on the usual suspects or limit themselves too narrowly.

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