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Concert Review: The Super Trio Celebrates Brahms

February 24, 2018
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The members of this trio seem to have preternatural access to each other’s musical thoughts.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 14

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

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Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View

April 9, 2013
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What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.

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Concert Review: Boston Musica Viva’s Satisfying “Role-Play”

March 26, 2013
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Boston Musica Viva presented an invigorating (if early) conclusion to the season, providing an ear-catching snapshot of chamber music written in the last thirty-plus years.

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Book Review: Losing it — Whining Against the Dying of the Light

December 8, 2011
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Losing It” explores growing old through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past—the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah—to which the author adds a plenitude of his own dicta and pensées, slinging the whole contraption together on a webbing of extrapolation and free association.

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Arts Commentary: The End (?) of Ignoring the Death of Arts Criticism

November 14, 2011
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Essentially, Kaiser’s plaint about the vanishing critic is useless because he, and so many other cultural kingpins worried about the end of professional criticism, offer no solutions.

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Book Review: “Thinner Than Skin” — Ambitious to a Fault

January 8, 2013
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Uzma Aslam Khan is a wonderful writer whose descriptions of the northern part of Pakistan and the fast fading way of life that had been lived there for hundreds of years are sometimes stunning.

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Dance Review: Sarasota Ballet Will Perform New England Premieres at Jacob’s Pillow

March 5, 2015
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The Sarasota Ballet will make its New England debut at Jacob’s Pillow in August with a program that includes two works of mid-20th century choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.

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Film Review: “Barbie” — Existential Crisis in Pink

July 25, 2023
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Director Greta Gerwig’s hard-edged but affectionate paean to Barbie is sweeter than it is satirical, slightly more perky than political.

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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability

March 10, 2023
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.

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