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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Haydn, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky

December 1, 2015
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Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.

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Visual Arts Review: Known and Mysterious—Wendy Artin’s Watercolors in “From the Roman Studio”

November 30, 2015
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Wendy Artin finds beauty everywhere – in a clutch of beets, old paintbrushes, ruined statues, the human body.

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Book Review: Two Volumes of Swiss Horror for Halloween

October 14, 2013
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Interestingly, both of these powerful visions of horror root their avenging vision of mayhem in the brutal mistreatment of children.

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World Books: Writing About China’s Earthquake — A Year Later

May 12, 2009
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By Liao Yiwu, Wen Huang, and Bill Marx Each time a disaster hits China, we all become refugees and strangers in our own land. — Liao Yiwu Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, 50, revisits the earthquake damaged Gu Temple in the town of Jiezi in the Sichuan Province. He was interviewing May 12th survivors for his…

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Listening During Covid, Part 14: Pleasures and Treasures

December 30, 2022
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Music of Machaut, the teenaged Mozart, and three vibrant American composers, plus a remarkable book about Charles Ives and his works.

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Test Poetry Page

August 26, 2020

BLIZZARD/Cole The most incongruous words in “Face of the Bee,” the opening poem of Henri Cole’s Blizzard, a loose, unrhymed sonnet of the kind made fashionable by Robert Lowell in the early 1970s, fall in the twelfth line of the poem: “cisgender male.” They plant a flag that signals two very different elements of the…

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Theater Review: “She Loves Me” — Amiably Unambitious

August 1, 2019
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This review, like the opening night of She Loves Me, is dedicated to the life and work of the late producer Harold Prince.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 20

January 20, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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CD Review: The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble — Volatile Fun

December 12, 2016
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Contagious enjoyment is very much the goal of Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Mission accomplished.

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Film Review: Hitting Up Against “The Wall”

September 18, 2013
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I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.

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