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Coming Attractions: July 11 through 27 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 11, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about 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 Review/Commentary: Awake Between Two Dreams — Steve Lacy’s “Vespers,” Live and Recorded

December 13, 2011
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What the few of us in Jordan Hall heard that night was a richly conceived and beautifully performed song cycle, mostly serious, but with some great wit in exactly the right places. It made for a fascinating and enlightening contrast to the CD version of “Vespers,” which Steve Lacy recorded in 1993.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: May 29 through June 7 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 29, 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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Coming Attractions: November 4 Through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 4, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 1

January 20, 2019
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2018 saw the release of four ambitious and powerful jazz releases driven by poetic texts.

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Opera Album Review: The Most Neglected Master of Opera? Carl Maria von Weber, Early and Late

February 13, 2020
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New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?

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Music Review / Commentary: Surprise Packages — Marc Ribot, solo guitar / Mostly Other People Do the Killing

October 1, 2012
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Honesty is Best Policy Disclosure: I was in the hall to hear Mostly Other People Do the Killing. I’d heard the band on CD, and I knew that the only way I could appreciate them fully was to attend a performance.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Jazz Composers’ Omnibus 2024

August 10, 2024
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Each of these four projects requires deep attention from a listener. Only two of them repay that attention with the musical rewards that bring a listener (this listener, at least) back for rehearings.

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Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 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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