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Jazz Concert Review: The Montreal Jazz Festival Turns 40, Part One

July 6, 2019
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The Montreal Jazz Festival is overwhelming in a way, but somehow genial, and finally inspiring.

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Jazz Album: “Love Hurts” — Guitarist Julian Lage’s Strongest Recording to Date

March 9, 2019
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The disc is manna for lovers of assertive electric guitar, played by one of today’s top practitioners, in an unadorned trio setting.

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Fuse News: The Perfect Book Review — Making Things Hot for Dan Brown’s “Inferno”

May 17, 2013
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Deadpan sarcasm perfectly pitched, absurdity of target (and publisher) punctured with a minimum of muss and fuss.

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Cultural Commentary: “The New Yorker” and The Fat Cats — Teaming Up

October 26, 2018
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Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?

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Fuse News: In March, Celebrity Series Will Help Us “Stave” Off Boredom

January 9, 2015
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Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.

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Rock Concert Review: Rush — Celebrating 40 Years of Prog-Rock

June 24, 2015
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One thing I’ve learned in years of being a Rush fan: Nobody ever changes their mind on this band.

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Theater Review: Kneehigh Wows With “Tristan & Yseult” — Love, Raucous and Romantic

March 8, 2015
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This exhilarating Tristan & Yseult shakes us out of our role as passive observers and reminds us of the euphoria and the heartbreak love can bring.

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Classical Music Review: Angela Hewitt’s Boston Debut

February 25, 2009
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By Caldwell Titcomb Pianist Angela Hewitt is welcome to visit Boston whenever she chooses. For some years professional musicians in London have been urging me to get acquainted with the pianism of Angela Hewitt. I was finally able to catch up last Sunday when she made her Boston debut at Jordan Hall under the auspices…

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Opera Album Review: A Major German Baroque Opera — Reinhard Keiser’s “Ulysses” Gets a Spiffy Recording

March 28, 2023
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Photo: Anton Saecki.

All in all, an ear-opening introduction to an important opera composer — and to the little-known tradition of German-language (with Italian touches) Baroque opera.

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Book Review: The Humanist Cinema of Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-hsien — Nothing But the Essential

October 5, 2014
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An exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.

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