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Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “The Old Country” — A Welcome Trip Down Memory Lane

November 8, 2024
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“The Old Country” is a wonderful addition to the Keith Jarrett discography. There are no stale leftovers here — this album adds a whole new course to the pianist’s extraordinary banquet.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 7, 2024
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This week’s poem: Serhiy Zhadan’s “What was supposed to happen”

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Music Interview: Fiddler and Composer Hanneke Cassel — Love and Commitment

November 7, 2024
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“My goal is to play these wonderful venues and also be close to home so I can have time in the morning with my daughter. I marvel at living in New England.”

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Concert Review: The Jerusalem Quartet Balances Lyricism and Vitality

November 6, 2024
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The performance of the Jerusalem Quartet was marked by considerable poise, polish, and personality.

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DocTalk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival — Delicately Retrieving the Past

November 6, 2024
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Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.

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Concert Review: David Cross Band/Beat — A King Crimson Moment

November 5, 2024
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Just weeks apart, two different groups have made their way to Boston on international tours – without Robert Fripp but with his blessing – their shows focusing on a specific era of King Crimson’s existence. 

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Concert Review: The Dresden Dolls and Gogol Bordello Rage Against the Machine

November 5, 2024
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Saturday’s finale of a two-night Roadrunner stand, the Dresden Dolls’ first Boston shows since 2017, raged as a celebration of camaraderie and catharsis.

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Film Review: GlobeDocs 2024 — A Wrap-Up

November 5, 2024
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For its 10th anniversary, the Boston Globe’s documentary festival expanded its cinematic field to a wide variety of genres and subjects.

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Visual Arts Review: “The Manzanita Loop” — And Its Endless Search

November 4, 2024
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Beaux Mendes’ work piques the same interest in us as our information-hunger, set loose from any hope of a ground truth, and the endless searching this provokes.

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Classical Music Album Review: Klaus Mäkelä’s Characterless Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 4-6

November 4, 2024
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The performances on the recording exhibit no conception of Shostakovich’s style – where is this music’s irony and sarcasm, let alone pathos? – not to mention any sense of how to navigate large-scale forms.

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