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2018 WINTER APPEAL — Keep The Arts Fuse Lit!

December 5, 2018
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Help sustain an endangered journalistic species — substantial critical coverage of the arts.

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Fuse Preview: Jazz Festivals in New England Close Out June

June 17, 2016
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Summer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.

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Fuse Rock Review: Wire — Unconventional Pop That Seduces and Confuses

June 4, 2015
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The sound was often so inviting that it seemed Wire were easing comfortably into middle age.

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Theater Review: “The Grand Parade” — History as an Imaginative Pageant

May 3, 2015
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The Grand Parade is a truly sumptuous feast of imagination, color, emotion and movement; a uniquely dramatic way of interpreting our history as a torrent of events presented without judgment.

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Fuse Rock Concert Review: Chris Robinson Brotherhood — Sticking to its Hippie Guns

February 16, 2015
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Yes, Chris Robinson is ironically in a band called the Brotherhood when he can’t work with his actual brother in the Black Crowes.

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Jazz Performance/CD Review: The Ralph Peterson Fo-tet

September 19, 2012
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Ralph Peterson is interested in furthering a complex, post-bop legacy. His music can be hard to count: it’s also rip-roaring fun.

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Keep an Eye on Spaulding and Company

August 27, 2007
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Bloggers predicted that CEO/President Josiah Spaulding Jr.’s over-the-top 1.265 million dollar retention bonus would spark inquiries into how much money goes where at the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC). It does not seem too much to ask, given that the state and other funders are throwing much moolah at a troubled nonprofit arts institution whose…

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Perfectly Picaresque

June 20, 2005
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The Decemberists’ album offers a lineup of tunes that would soothe Shakespeare on a balmy evening.

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Culture Vulture: Back at the Mall with Das Rheingold — What would Wagner think?

October 30, 2010
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The possibilities of the internet as well as the MET in HD pull Wagner’s dream of a total work of art into the context of 21st-century technology and culture, making possible new cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary references as never before. I think he would have loved it. By Helen Epstein. When I was a musicology student…

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Concert Review: Beethoven’s Final Piano Sonatas

October 13, 2010
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We often hear about how Brahms and Mahler lived under the shadow of Beethoven’s symphonies, but I suspect many other composers had the last three sonatas in their heads, keeping them both inspired and humble. Beethoven Opus 109. 110, 111. Performed by pianist Till Fellner. At Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory, October 12, 2010. By Susan…

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