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Opera Album Review: Old Enough to Be New Again — A Staggeringly Beautiful Recording

July 4, 2023
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This recording of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Psyché provides non-stop pleasure and delights, thanks to the latest developments in early-music performance practice.

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Classical Music Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018-19 Season Announcement

March 22, 2018
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The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.

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Musician Interview: Saxophonist, Composer, and Historian of Early Jazz Allen Lowe — An Invaluable Maverick

June 22, 2025
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Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and historian of early jazz and roots music who doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from jazz’s gatekeepers.

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Book Review: “The Search for John Lennon” — Going Down the Wrong Road

April 7, 2021
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In her search for John Lennon, the author follows her fancy and picks and chooses which rocks she wants to look under, all the while giving herself the space to wax poetic on whatever theme moves her. It’s an appealing approach. Too bad then that the book is a let down.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 30

December 30, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: Lucinda Franks’s Memoir – A Deeply Romantic Story of a May-December NYC Power Couple

September 1, 2014
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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks’s writing can be brilliant, deeply honest, and startling; other times superficial, sentimental, New Agey, or simply not credible.

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Film Review: “Life Itself” — The Roger Ebert Story, Told Brilliantly

July 11, 2014
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Film critic Roger Ebert was a complicated man and this documentary does a superb job of exploring his different sides, detailing the evolution of his personality over the decades.

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Classical CD Review: The Symphonies of Max Bruch — Getting the Attention They Deserve

August 12, 2020
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This is a conductor and ensemble that have the measure of Max Bruch’s style and voice well in hand.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Matthew Shipp — A Splendidly Many-Sided Pianist

November 12, 2020
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Three recordings that testify to the chameleonic power of the (usually) avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “El Camino” — Epilogue for an Anti-Hero

October 15, 2019
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Like Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.

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