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Book Review: “Playing Changes” — Redefining Jazz

December 13, 2018
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This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

September 4, 2025
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This week’s poem: Shangyang Fang’s translation of Chen Yuyi’s “Remembrance of Days in Luoyang”

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Film Review: “How to Have Sex” — Proper Instructions

February 9, 2024
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Has there ever been a better or more accurate film about young girls on the edge of adulthood testing out their sexuality?

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Classical Album Reviews: Eric Coates Orchestral Works, Vol. 4, and Prokofiev Orchestral Works

August 5, 2024
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John Wilson and his players clearly have the measure of Eric Coates’ tuneful, often clever, style and deliver it to the hilt; Aziz Shokhakimov and the Strasbourgers, though still on a learning curve, have a bright future ahead of them.

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Film Review: “Cry Macho” — Not So Mucho Macho

September 27, 2021
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Cry Macho is little more than nostalgia for the Old West of Hollywood.

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Film Review: “The Insult” — Contrived Courtroom Drama, Interesting Backstory

February 15, 2018
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The film becomes a made-for-TV trial melodrama, with actors delivering oratorical speeches and the plot spinning several times with contrived, made-to-shock revelations.

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Great News For the ‘Fuse — Support for the Judicial Review

March 27, 2010
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I am not sure that men at present think more profoundly than half a century ago, but beyond question they think with more rapidity, with more skill, with more tact, with more method and less of excrescence in the thought. Besides all this, they have a vast increase in the thinking material; they have more…

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — November 18

November 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Doc Talk: Beauty and Truth at the National Center for Jewish Film’s Film Festival

March 14, 2025
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Two essential documentaries look at the legacies of Leni Riefenstahl and Elie Wiesel.

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Classical Album Review: Allen Shawn — An American Composer of Vivid and Varied Imaginings

March 31, 2023
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Allen Shawn is one of the great composers of piano music in America today, with seven piano sonatas, various suites and shorter pieces. An astounding concerto of his has been recorded by the remarkable Ursula Oppens.

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