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Concert Review: The Bard in Boston, Part 3

February 16, 2016
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The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.

Opera Album Review: A Major New Opera that the Met Has Ignored — Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings”

June 22, 2024
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This world-premiere recording lets us hear one of the most effective recent operas, based on the famous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Music Feature: Fervent Prayer — Galeet Dardashti crafts new rituals from the old

September 13, 2011
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Galeet Dardashti is a trailblazing musician: she is the first woman in her celebrated family to perform Persian Jewish music

Theater/Book Interview: Ben, We Hardly Know Ye — Donaldson on Jonson

December 17, 2011
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Ben Jonson is one of the great unknown geniuses of the English theater and of western literature. Ian Donaldson’s new biography of the playwright/poet successfully makes the case that he deserves to be better known.

Classical Concert Review: The BSO Handles a Last Minute Cancellation with Aplomb

January 22, 2012
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Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, is a big man who conducts with big gestures. In the first half of “The Rite of Spring” I wasn’t quite sure if his podium mannerisms (which culminated in jumping jacks during the concluding “Dance of the Earth”) were helpful or distracting.

Music Commentary: Modern Marketing and The Hella Mega Tour

September 18, 2019
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If the music industry put as much effort into being fair to their customers as they put into taking their money, everyone could participate in the rocking world.

Opera Album Review: A Major Baroque Opera in English Receives a Stylish Recording

March 15, 2023
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Aside from English pronunciation issues, the singers put over this remarkably polished and attractive opera by one of England’s great seventeenth-century composers with great panache, matching the superb instrumentalists.

Dance Review: Trajal Harrell — Seduction and Silk

September 24, 2018
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Now, we’re told, Trajal Harrell has been researching Butoh dance and hoochy coochy dance, hooking them up with the precursors of modern dance and slathering on generous amounts of gender theory.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 9, 2023
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This week’s poem: Anna V. Q. Ross’s “All my poems used to end in sky”

Fuse Interview: A Peek Inside Outside the Box

July 10, 2016
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“Every year is a new adventure, but the goal has always been to have this as an annual event.”

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