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Best Jazz Recordings (and Live Concerts), 2019

December 12, 2019
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Pianist Kris Davis’s Diatom Ribbons and the multi-disc set Nat King Cole’s Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-43) are among the albums that made more than one list.

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Film Review: “Dark Waters” — Poison and Passion

December 11, 2019
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Dark Waters may not be Todd Haynes’ most beautiful film, but it may yet prove to be among his most important.

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Film Review: “A Hidden Life” — A Sacramental Journey

December 11, 2019
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Even with my caveats, A Hidden Life raises filmmaking to heights that will thrill Terrence Malick fans.

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Book Review: “The Conservative Sensibility” — A Plea for a Return to Normalcy

December 10, 2019
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The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.

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KEEP THE ARTS FUSE LIT! — Our Winter Appeal

December 10, 2019
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Help us continue to go where other arts magazines fear to tread, recognizing under-appreciated classical music, jazz, and dance performances.

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Book Review: Refugee Scholars — “Well Worth Saving”

December 10, 2019
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This is a carefully-researched book of far more than academic interest.

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Opera Review: A Major Opera by Donizetti — Heard for the First Time!

December 10, 2019
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One of Donizetti’s strongest and most original works, has finally been reconstructed and recorded by superb forces under the remarkable Mark Elder.

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Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms

December 9, 2019
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In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.

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Concert Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band — Even Now, Still Evolving

December 8, 2019
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Each concert offered all that the Tedeschi Trucks Band  can do.

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Theater Review: New Rep’s “Oliver!” — Less Boundless Energy, Please

December 8, 2019
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The spirit of Oliver! explodes on stage here, and that is a credit to the ambitions of this company.

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