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Short Fuse Podcast #32: An Interview with Country Singer Teagan Stewart

November 17, 2020
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Host Deanna Costa virtually meets with country musician Teagan Stewart to chat about her latest EP, Taste of My Heartbreak.

Poetry Review: Joshua Bennett’s “Owed” — Paying a Debt, Memorably

November 16, 2020
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Every exquisitely crafted line reflects the pull of a threatening body politic, the gravitational force of history.

Opera CD Review: Verdi’s Opera about Attila the Hun Gets a Taut, Vivid New Recording

November 16, 2020
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Metropolitan Opera stars Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Liudmyla Monastyrska headline a new recording that reveals Verdi operatic mastery five years before Rigoletto.

Jazz Album Review: The Royal Bopsters — A Polished “Party of Four”

November 15, 2020
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This recording displays a mastery of the techniques of the jazz vocal group genre.

Shelter in Place Attractions: November 15 through December 1 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

November 15, 2020
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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.

Film Review: “The Nest” — More Is Less

November 14, 2020
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The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.

Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud

November 13, 2020
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“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID — Beethoven’s Jesus, Liszt’s Variations on “Norma,” and Janáček’s Animal Opera

November 13, 2020
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Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.

Film Review: “Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER” — Homage to a Perpetual Rebel

November 12, 2020
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The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.

Jazz Album Reviews: Matthew Shipp — A Splendidly Many-Sided Pianist

November 12, 2020
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Three recordings that testify to the chameleonic power of the (usually) avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp.

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