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Film Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2022

December 31, 2022
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2022 in music documentaries: Ten worth streaming, plus a disappointment.

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World Music Album Review: Michael Wimberly’s “Afrofuturism” — Journeying Forward Through Diversity

February 25, 2021
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We need more recordings like this. This is a diverse and imaginative album that draws on a wide range of influences: rap, old-school funk, Afropop, traditional West African music, and R&B jam sessions.

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Concert Review: Thomas Adés Conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 13, 2013
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.

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Jazz Album Review: Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorers Club — An Exemplary “Second Life”

June 2, 2024
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Witty, varied, played warmly and arranged dexterously, avoiding the glum, the explorations on “A Second Life” should please just about every jazz fan.

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Book Review: “Disquiet” — A Compassionate Litany of Tragedies in the Middle East

July 28, 2021
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This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.

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Film Review: “Martin Eden” — Portrait of an Artist as a Young Egotist

October 18, 2020
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In his mostly successful filmic adaptation of Martin Eden, Italian director Pietro Marcello transposes with ease London’s Oakland novel to the seaport of Naples.

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Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Inspires “Desire”

May 9, 2017
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The source material  — and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators — provides an evening of compelling theater.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 28

February 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Jazz Album Review: Pepper Adams Quintet — The Baritone Voice of Hard Bop Excellence

November 9, 2025
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Baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams was clearly a generous soul, as well as a stunningly accomplished jazz musician.

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Electronic Art Pop Album Review: FKA twigs’ “Caprisongs” — Hypnotic Mixtape

January 31, 2022
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The format may be different, but FKA twigs remains as hypnotic as ever on her album Caprisongs.

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