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Arts Commentary: From the Editor’s Desk — By Popular Demand, 2025

April 24, 2025
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Back in February of 2024 I began to write a weekly column for AF newsletter on Substack. A few readers have asked that I post these opinion pieces in the magazine. Here is a selection of my favorites of 2025

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Concert Reviews: Chamber Music Roundup — Radius Ensemble and Chameleon Arts Ensemble

May 30, 2024
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Two Boston-area chamber music ensembles recently ended their seasons. Each embraced the present in its own distinctive way.

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Design Commentary: The Look of the Olympic Games — Paris 2024

July 27, 2024
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Tastefully colorful and aesthetically pleasing, stylish as well as minimalist, modern yet richly symbolic, the Look of the Paris  2024 Olympic Games got many things right and a few wrong.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Strong Discs from Pianist Chick Corea and Bassist Eric Revis

September 11, 2020
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A pair of beauties: an Eric Revis quintet album and a solo excursion from Chick Corea.

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Book Review: “Punch Me Up to the Gods” — Stories That Need to be Told

November 30, 2021
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A stunning indictment of homophobia, racism, and toxic masculinity, particularly among African Americans, Punch Me Up to the Gods holds a mirror up to America, a mirror before which many of us will not want to linger.

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Film Review: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — A World Where the Outrageous Feels Real

November 26, 2022
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With gorgeous, vivid stop-motion animation overseen by co-director Mark Gustafson, this inspired collaborative effort carves its own lane among the many adaptations of the oft-told story.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 29

January 29, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Opera CD Review: Two Splendid World-Premiere Recordings Rediscover an Exotic Master of Song — Reynaldo Hahn

April 5, 2021
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Attention is being paid today to talented composers who have been sidelined or disdained because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Reynaldo Hahn qualifies on several counts.

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Theater Review: “The Strawberry Girl” — Harvest of Horror

September 24, 2015
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Israeli Stage has opened its sixth season, which is dedicated exclusively to female playwrights, with a haunting work that examines the complicity of an ordinary German in the Holocaust.

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Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop

March 5, 2015
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In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.

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