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The overall impression of this valuable exhibit is to remind us that religious conviction is by no means synonymous with conservatism.
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The music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka is a gift to all who want to seek the divine through song, as I discovered myself in a Moroccan taxi many years ago.
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This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.
Read MoreIt’s easy, and popular, to write director Wes Anderson off as a hipster who offers nothing beyond quirk and the occasional funny line. But his films are really American versions of the French New Wave. by Justin Marble “He redeemed himself.” “Redemption? Sure. But in the end, he’s just another dead rat in a garbage…
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
Read MoreThe truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.
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Max Ewing is little known today, but this book celebrates him as a sexually nonconforming bachelor who strove to impress the quirkiest bohemian clique of the Roaring ’20s.
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Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.
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Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard
There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.
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