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It amazed me that Lee Konitz in his nineties could still find his way through a maze of changes, chorus after chorus, and at the same time be capable of weaving a beautiful, unscripted melody while producing a sound so wide, one could crawl into it.
Read MoreUpdated. Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.
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On closer inspection, Dan Sinykin’s notion of a “conglomerate author” is largely a fiction.
Read MoreArt with a capital A has been put on such a pedestal that Craft with a capital C has been downgraded to a shabby or rustic sort of activity of which the practitioner should be a little ashamed. ’Tain’t so.
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The shared baseline of these conversations is that there are no good old days to go back to. If the cultural sector in the United States returns to the ways things were organized in February, 2020, with all the inequity and unsustainability that implies, we will have failed.
Read MoreThis anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.
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Arts Commentary: WBUR’s Clogged “ARTery”
Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.
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