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Opera CD Review: Carl Maria von Weber’s Wildly Assorted Candy Box — A Spiffy New Recording

January 9, 2020
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The rarely staged Oberon is easy to love and will fascinate admirers of early nineteenth-century music.

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Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

May 1, 2019
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Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.

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Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

September 30, 2011
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It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

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Coming Attractions: April 27 Through May 12 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 9, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Music Review/Commentary: The Fringe in Context — Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival II

December 4, 2011
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Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.

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Coming Attractions: April 3 Through 18 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 3, 2022
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As the age of Covid-19 finally wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. Please check with venues when uncertain whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Music Interview: Guitarist and Singer-Songwriter Richard Thompson on His Memoir, “Beeswing”

April 16, 2021
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“I really thought that I could sustain a life in music, but perhaps I’d end up in Las Vegas backing Tom Jones or something.”

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Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

December 26, 2017
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Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

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Film Anniversary: From Punchline to Plausibility — The 50-Year Transformation of “Soylent Green”

November 29, 2023
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“Soylent Green” should be seen as a work of future history, a docudrama of things that, in 1973, had yet to happen but are happening now, 50 years later.

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Music Preview: The Wailin’ Jennys Return to Cambridge

August 19, 2018
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“Our intention was something other than being famous. When you create art from that place, a song is going to connect with people.”

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