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Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival — The King’s Singers and Ayreheart

June 16, 2017
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Boston Early Music Festival tossed a bang-up evening of performances on Monday night.

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Book Review: “Clown Town” — Not Quite as Amusing as Expected

September 9, 2025
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Mick Herron’s prose, it must be said, remains top-notch, chock full of puns and timely references, as well as colorful dialogue. But the premise of this successful series of espionage thrillers is beginning to show some wear.

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Classical Music Review: Colin Carr’s Bach — A Trifecta of Beauty

July 16, 2018
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Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach’s Six Cello Suites.

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Theater Review: “Trigger Warning” — Not Quite Explosive

April 30, 2019
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As Zeitgeist Stage Company closes its doors, it’s hard not to wonder, with some bitterness, what our plucky local small-scale theater troupes would be able to accomplish if they had the resources they need.

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Short Fuse: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Applies the Corrective

August 13, 2009
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By Harvey Blume In an interview I did with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1997 (for the now defunct “Boston Book Review”), we talked, naturally enough, about the issue of race in America, and about Gates’s sense of mission, as scholar and writer, in relationship to it. One thing in particular that he said sheds…

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Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

December 12, 2015
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Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

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Jazz Album Review: “Swing Symphony” — Quintessential Wynton Marsalis

July 2, 2019
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Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony is his third effort in the grand form.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Cal Tjader’s Quintet and Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio in the Mid-’60s

November 15, 2023
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Two upcoming releases of restored radio broadcasts offer so much good listening and so much deeply satisfying jazz that they deserve to share the spotlight. One of them is destined to be seen as a landmark document in jazz history.

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Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”

January 27, 2013
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At times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — November 1

November 1, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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