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Opera Album Review: Two Composers — One Vivid French Baroque Opera, Based on Euripides

May 31, 2025
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Two-plus hours of delight  for anybody interested in Baroque opera, or willing to try it. 

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CD Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Wagner and Sibelius (BSO Classics)

February 27, 2015
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The main takeaway from this first BSO album under new music director Andris Nelsons is the excellent, exciting Sibelius performance.

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Television Review: “Wormwood” — Errol Morris’ Brilliant Bricolage

December 20, 2017
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Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 3

July 3, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: Thomas Bernhard — A Grouch of Greatness

March 12, 2002
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A biography that examines, with mixed results, the life and work of Thomas Bernhard, an acclaimed Austrian writer and playwright his homeland loved to hate.

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Theater Review: Rock Critic Lester Bangs — A Welcome Rebel Yell

May 15, 2017
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Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.

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Film Commentary: “Pride and Prejudice” — The Nature of Love, 20 Years On

April 21, 2025
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Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen was a cultural tipping point; he was the bold standard bearer for what has become a spirited new form of historical cinema.

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Concert Review: Janelle Monáe — As a Performer, The Real Deal

September 20, 2023
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Janelle Monáe’s an impressive singer and capable rapper but she is indeed phenomenal as a performer, showing keen attention to the craft.

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Jazz Album Review: Satoko Fujii’s “Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams” — Slightly Restrained Mayhem

December 11, 2022
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Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii’s determination to create is astonishing and wide-ranging — her 100 albums as leader prove it.

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Jazz EP Review: Esperanza Spalding and Fred Hersch: Live at the Village Vanguard — A Divine Duo

May 31, 2020
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Yes, purchasing this EP will help out a good cause, but the musical value of this fabulous duo’s performance is priceless.

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