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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Setting the Margins

February 10, 2015
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This post is the first of 17 in an ambitious series examining the traditions and realities of classical piano concertos influenced by jazz.

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Coming Attractions: June 30 through July 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 30, 2019
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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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Classical Album Review: Short Can Be Good — Three Splendidly Varied One-Act Operas by Lennox Berkeley

August 3, 2022
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I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.

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Book Review: “Scissors” — A Sharp Exploration of the Creative Process

August 26, 2013
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Scissors is a roman à clef. But Stéphane Michaka has not composed a fictionalized biography mapping out the itinerary of Raymond Carver’s life. The novelist above all focuses on the creative process in which a writer named “Raymond” is involved.

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Fuse Coming Attractions—November 8–17: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 8, 2015
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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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Television Review: “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” — Episodes 1-4

November 30, 2021
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There are three key words in the title: “music,” “change,” and “everything.” At its best, the series convincingly shows how they are linked. Other times, it embraces too much of one at the expense of the other two.

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Film Review: A Quartet of Discoveries at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 25, 2015
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Reviews of four strong independent films that may — or may not — be coming to a screen near you.

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Opera Album Review: An Award-Winning Recording of Handel’s Most Comical Opera

January 5, 2024
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Mary Bevan, silvery soprano beloved in Boston, enchants anew in one of Handel’s most frequently performed and recorded operas.

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Opera Review: Arabs on the Operatic Stage — Meyerbeer’s 1814 Comic Opera about the Mysterious ‘East’

January 26, 2022
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Long before the often-prejudicial portrayals of Middle Easterners in Hollywood films, opera composers crafted insightful works from 1001 Nights.

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Theater Review: Listening to “Our Better Angels”

November 9, 2017
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Is a romantic relationship with someone who is lovely — but mentally ill — worth the effort?

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