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Rock CD Review: “Joe Strummer 001” — He Never Rested on His Laurels

October 22, 2018
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What the box set makes adamantly, abundantly clear is how egalitarian Joe Strummer’s musical vision truly was. If you don’t already know his solo work, you should.

Short Fuse: Xiangqi Fever

June 15, 2009
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By Harvey Blume To play Xiangqi (Chinese chess) as earnestly as I have been lately is to revisit a familiar situation, one in which I am at the gateway of another culture, hungry for the experience, but positioned as a junior. That was the case with African drumming and with neurological difference, for example, especially…

Jazz Concert Review: Lee Konitz at 90 — At the Regattabar

January 31, 2018
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Lee Konitz presented himself as the aging hipster he seems to be — sunglasses, laconic presence, and an I-don’t-give-a-shit attitude.

Film Reviews: Movies on Art at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival

June 28, 2025
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“Art is anything you can get away with,” said Marshall McLuhan. Three films that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival suggest that he was right.

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1960 – 2004

April 8, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

Author Interview: Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on His First Novel, “Nobody’s Empire”

January 27, 2025
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With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.

Book Review: Christopher Plummer Recounts His Life

September 19, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb There are those who have proclaimed that Christopher Plummer is the greatest classical actor in North America. There is certainly no gainsaying that he has for some time been in the tiny group at the top of the acting profession. Now as he nears the age of 80 he has brought forth…

The Arts on Stamps of the World — November 8

November 8, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Television Review: “Hello Tomorrow!” — Moon Over Miasma

February 21, 2023
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You don’t see this often on commercial TV: a nihilistic expose of consumerism.

Arts Feature: My “Best of 2021” — An Operatic Cornucopia

December 19, 2021
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Here’s my list of twenty superlative operatic offerings of different kinds.

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