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Rock Album Review: Beady Eye — “BE” Good?

November 19, 2013
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At its best, “BE” is an adventurous album, which automatically makes it an improvement over Beady Eye’s 2011 debut.

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Theater Review: A Stimulating “Tea for Three”

September 19, 2013
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Each different personality and monologue tells essentially the same story under their varying details, a thrice-told tale of wifely loyalty in the face of political husbandry.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 14

May 14, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Concert Review: Masterworks Chorale — Bach to Bach

May 16, 2018
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Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.

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Dance Review: Viva Ballet Folklórico de México!

September 24, 2012
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No question that the culture of Mexico is suffused with memories of music, bright colors, and joy. Would that contemporary political realities reflected more closely the life-enhancing images on stage.

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Music Review: The Beguiling Vocal Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams

October 5, 2010
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The Cantata Singers, a choral group highly esteemed for their programming and superior music making, has devoted the past few years to examining the choral music of one composer per season. The three previous composers to receive this lavish attention were Kurt Weill, Benjamin Britten, and Heinrich Schütz. This is their 47th season and their…

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Opera Review: ‘Tales of Hoffmann’

November 18, 2008
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By Caldwell Titcomb The scientist Spalanzani (tenor Neal Ferreira) strikes an unlikely deal with the nefarious inventor Coppélius (baritone Gaétan Laperrière) in the BLO’s fine production of “Tales of Hoffmann.” One of history’s most famous and beloved French operas wasn’t written by a native Frenchman. “The Tales of Hoffmann” came from the pen of Jacques…

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Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

August 3, 2013
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“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

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Film Review: “Lavender Men” — A Spotlight on Gaybraham Lincoln

June 17, 2025
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Considering the determination of the current administration to send America back to the 19th century (or even earlier, perhaps to the Dark Ages), “Lavender Men” supplies an entertaining — and valuable — history lesson.

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Jazz Album Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Distinctive “7 Shades of Melancholia”

June 3, 2025
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I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.

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