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Concert Review: The Song of Songs and Songs of Love in Sixteenth-century Spain

June 11, 2012
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The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with “a marvelously expansive concept of the divine” in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.

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Television Review: “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” — A Hypocritical Homage

May 23, 2023
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The documentary tries to tell the story of the real Anna Nicole Smith, but it falls short.

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Jazz Album Review: Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr. Go “Face à Face”

August 18, 2022
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To my ears, these beautifully recorded improvisations — with their unique sequences of tones and subtle interactions — are never less than intriguing.

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Book Review: “What Came Before” — A Horde of Micro-essays

October 16, 2020
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At his best, Matthew Schultz’s abilities as a writer transcend the small, tight canvasses he has prepared for himself.

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Dance Preview: Compagnie Shantala Shivalingappa at the ICA

February 21, 2015
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The Boston debut of internationally-acclaimed classical Indian dance performer Shantala Shivalingappa.

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Fuse Feature: “The Riddle behind the Riddle” — A Dispatch from William Kentridge’s Fifth Norton Lecture

April 20, 2012
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Mistranslation weaves through this lecture, for every translation is a mistranslation. But that is what makes them fruitful. As soon as we mis-hear or fail to understand, the brain constructs an instant bit of narrative to bridge the gap in understanding.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 25

August 25, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Music Feature: Wagner’s Ring Cycle in HD — The MET at the Mall Goes Global

October 5, 2010
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The bottom line is that Opera in HD is a huge hit all over the United States and is transforming the art form as it succeeds. Via The Met: Live in HD, New Englanders can experience parts of Wagner’s Ring Cycle without going to New York beginning on October 9 at 1 p.m. with the…

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 19

April 19, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Theater Review: A Fresh Take on GBS’s “Pygmalion”

August 4, 2016
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The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.

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