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Dance Review: Meredith Monk — Songs With and Without Words

March 2, 2017
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Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.

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Fuse Commentary: The Year in Film — 2012

January 14, 2013
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Fuse film critic Tim Jackson picks the best of the past year in movies, a round-up that includes some grievously overlooked documentaries, independent, and foreign films.

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Music Preview: Navigating the Headwaters of the Third Stream

February 12, 2014
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NEC is closed tonight but much of the repertoire on this program is also scheduled for a concert on March 6.

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Classical Concert Preview: Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach

October 22, 2024
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“The more you listen to Bach, the more the synapses fire and you just have to take hold of the reins and let the Bach horse take you wherever it will.”

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Theater Review: “Homebody” – A Nation in a Reading Nook

May 2, 2017
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Debra Wise’s stellar turn is not only a reflection of her long stage career, but a testament to the breadth of her experience.

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Book Review: “The Dogs of Inishere” — The Ambiguities of Desire

May 1, 2017
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Alannah Hopkin demonstrates a near impeccable sense of craft, including a talent for coming up with surprises.

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Film Review: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État” — The Freedom of Jazz, Manipulated in the Cold War

January 11, 2025
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This is a chilling tale of the (last) Cold War, and footage of Teslas and iPhones serves as a potent reminder that the struggle for global natural resources, in the Third World and beyond, continues.

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Fuse Commentary Drill Down: Iiro Rantala’s “Concerto in G-sharp / A-flat”

February 1, 2012
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Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman is currently surveying works that illuminate the tradition of the jazz-influenced piano concerto. His series began with an examination of Chick Corea’s current recording, The Continents. In part two, he takes a look at eight works by jazz composers that precede the release of Corea’s work. This post is a…

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Film Commentary: Movie Love or, Seven Moments from the Ontology of the Cinematic Image

May 26, 2020
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The anti-cinema, represented by CGI, obliterates perception; it is not interested in tutoring the eye to see more deeply.

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Film Preview: Sheer Silent Film Magic — “He Who Gets Slapped” and The Alloy Orchestra

December 23, 2013
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“Lon Chaney is just a master,” says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, “and the film ‘He Who Gets Slapped’ has everything that he’s great at.”

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