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Concert Preview: BSO’s Robert Sheena on George Tsontakis’ “Sonnets”

February 11, 2016
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The English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.

Book Review: “The Devil’s Treasure” — An Absorbing Exercise in Literary Self-Examination

October 25, 2023
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The takeaway from “The Devil’s Treasure” is that everything under consideration in this unique project is somehow beautiful, even when seemingly pained.

Fuse Book Review: A Post-Modern History Lesson

June 17, 2011
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At the very least, showing the triumph of reality over inane illusions of perfection doesn’t lead to particularly complex drama; it is sort of like picking off myopic dreamers in a barrel.

Album Review: Minx’s “The Cloistered Order” — A Captivating Blend of Tempos and Dynamics

June 1, 2023
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Like Thin Lizzy, Minx marries metallic thunder with melodic structures and lyrics worth listening to.

Jazz CD Review: Sara Serpa’s “Close Up” — Rewarding Ambiguity

March 5, 2018
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Singer Sara Serpa refracts, bends, suspends, and shifts sounds and syllables, creating a kind of linguistic limbo.

Book Review: Photographer Diane Arbus — Lingering Mysteries

August 15, 2016
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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know,” Diane Arbus said. Her biographer notes that observation. Hard as he tries, many secrets remain.

Opera Album Review: Odyssey Opera’s Invaluable World-Premiere Recording of Saint-Saëns’s Complete “Henry VIII”

October 27, 2022
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Gil Rose’s team, headed by an incandescent Ellie Dehn as Catherine of Aragon, should help bring this major work back to the world’s opera-house stages.

Theater Review: Sutton Foster Shines Bright in Broadway Revival of “Once Upon a Mattress”

August 20, 2024
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This “Mattress” is all about Sutton Foster. And that’s a good thing.

Theater Review: Off the Grid’s “The Weird” — Not Nearly Weird Enough

September 9, 2017
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Off the Grid’s The Weird is content to cast a low wattage spell.

Fuse Classical CD Review: “Out of Nowhere” (Leila Josefowicz/Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen)

December 17, 2012
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Now in his mid-50s, Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the most interesting and important composers of his generation and the recent attention his music is receiving is well deserved.

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