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Poetry Review: Henri Cole’s “Touch” — Love Thy Neighbor, Like Thyself

December 18, 2011
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Is it true that if I love my neighbor I can, or will, like myself? This question cuts to the heart of the poems in Heni Cole’s volume “Touch,” and the answer is yes.

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Arts Interview: Scott Timberg Looks at the “Culture Crash” Square in the Eye

January 13, 2015
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“It’s not depressing to be told that writers and artists are getting screwed. It’s our daily reality.”

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Music Review: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015

May 9, 2015
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The New Orleans JazzFest is made for omnivorous gluttons, which makes it a perfect complement to the region’s cuisine.

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Music Commentary: Nanci Griffith vs. the “New Yorker”

December 19, 2023
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It was the sniping tone that made the article perplexing. I would almost call it perverse. Why treat so cavalierly — even shabbily — a deceased, highly esteemed, Grammy-winning artist?

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Music Feature: An Interview with Brian O’Donovan about “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn”

December 20, 2012
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Born from O’Donovan’s long-running WGBH-radio program, “A Celtic Sojourn,” the Christmas show mixes traditional Irish, Scottish, and Welsh fare with favorite Christmas songs performed with such affecting beauty that it’s reasonable to say you’ve never heard them like this before.

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Arts Remembrance: Jazz Notables We Lost in 2024

January 12, 2025
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For many years now, we’ve collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 19

August 19, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”

January 20, 2019
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A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 1, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year In Music (February Entry)

February 20, 2021
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Here’s yet one more fantastic thing about it no longer being 2020: it’s now the 50th anniversary of the excellent music that premiered in 1971.

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