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Coming Attractions: November 24 Through December 7 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 24, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Opera Album Review: Is Perfection Still Possible? Lully’s “Isis” under Christophe Rousset

August 1, 2020
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Is it any wonder? An opera that angered Louis XIV in 1677 brings enormous pleasure in 2020.

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Classical Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1 – 12, played by the RedKoral Quartet and Guests

January 26, 2023
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Over the past year, I’ve delved into the most significant body of work for string quartet ever written by a composer whose primary identity with the public is as a jazz musician. Here’s how to begin your own encounter with important facets of the work of an artist whose name you ought to know.

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Coming Attractions: June 6 through 14 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 6, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

October 4, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Music Commentary: Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto — The Universal Concerto?

March 27, 2022
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Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is almost something of a phenomenon now: in just eight months, I’ve heard it played by three different fiddlers — Baiba Skride, Lisa Batiashvili, and Inmo Yang.

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Jazz Concert Reviews: Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis and the Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Quintet at the Regattabar

September 23, 2025
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Gigs by superb bands led by Mary Halvorson and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol at the Regattabar.

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Film Review: “A Complete Unknown” — A Fable Well Worth Telling

December 21, 2024
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Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.

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Coming Attractions: September 3 through 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 3, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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May Short Fuses — Materia Critica

May 1, 2023
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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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