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February Short Fuses – Materia Critica

February 1, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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The 2021 Jazz Critics Poll: Only the Best

December 29, 2021
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Jazz isn’t an orthodoxy, a religion, a form of faith healing, or a tribal rite — you don’t have to be in the room with it the moment it happens to reap its benefits.

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April Short Fuses — Materia Critica

April 1, 2025
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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A Remembrance of Theater Artist Paul Dervis: Embracing The Incomprehensible

July 8, 2022
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Personal salutes to theater director, playwright, and critic Paul Dervis, who died at the age of 67 on June 13.

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Music Perspective / Preview: The Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory – “Where the Borders Disappear”

September 6, 2013
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The Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program is one of the best things we have in New England music, and if you’ve lived for any length of time in the Boston area without attending one of its concerts, you’ve missed an important experience.

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Jazz Review / Commentary: Chick Corea’s “The Continents” and the Problem of the Jazz Piano Concerto

February 22, 2012
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Chick Corea’s “The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra” is filled with tuneful melody, shows off some superb playing by the soloists, breaks new ground in a number of ways, and achieves nearly all of its ambitions.

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Arts Remembrance: Homage to Paul West — The Cosmic Range of an Eccentric Genius

October 18, 2016
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“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”

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Visual Arts Interview: The Colonial Elephant in the Room — Talking with Barnaby Phillips, author of “Loot: Britain and The Benin Bronzes”

June 16, 2021
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Last week, just a month after the publication of Loot in the US, the Met in New York announced that it was returning two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Jazz Preview and Appreciation: Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Coming to Jordan Hall

January 23, 2020
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Cécile McLorin Salvant understands that she is heroic.

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