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Fuse Concert Review: Rockport Chamber Music Festival Presents Death and the Emersons

June 10, 2014
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The challenging viola part takes prominence in Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 13, highlighting an essential yet oft-unsung voice of a string quartet.

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Theater Review: “Smart People” — A Sharp Satire of a “Post-Racial” World

June 9, 2014
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Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.

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Theater Review: A Spectacular Russian Staging of “Eugene Onegin”

June 9, 2014
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I was mesmerized by the evocative stage pictures and the straight-at-the-audience, presentational mode of the actors, whose facial expressions and gestures so viscerally conveyed the emotional lives of the characters.

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Book Review: Grim Light Reading — Alain Robbe-Grillet’s “A Sentimental Novel”

June 9, 2014
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A Sentimental Novel, which seems to be at once pornography and a parody of pornography, is designed to provoke both revulsion and titillation.

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Fuse News: Puerto Rican Festival Stays Downtown – And Other Summer Outdoor World Music Notes

June 9, 2014
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Once again the Festival Puertorriqueño de Massachusetts will be a downtown affair.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 8, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Theater Interview: Beau Jest Turns 30 — Davis Robinson on Moving into “Apt. 4D”

June 8, 2014
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We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.

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TV Commentary: “Cosmos” vs. the Science Deniers

June 7, 2014
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One of the most remarkable features of Cosmos — and possibly its greatest public service — has been its matter-of-fact, understated championing of the scientific method.

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Fuse Music Round-up: The Year in Alternative Music … So Far

June 7, 2014
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There have been three pop LPs this year that I’ve really been digging: they are gloriously wacky.

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Fuse Concert Preview: Commonwealth Lyric Theater’s “Mozart and Salieri”

June 7, 2014
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Thanks to CLT’s pluck and commitment to underperformed repertoire, Boston audiences have the chance to check out the rarely performed opera “Mozart and Salieri” for themselves.

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