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Festival Review: 2022 Newport Jazz Festival — A Relaxed Musical Vibe, Communal and Diverse

August 3, 2022
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To some degree, everything fit under the resilient umbrella that the late George Wein raised at the edge of Newport Harbor.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Post-Emmy Recommendations

September 14, 2022
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Television is the new art cinema, chock full of superb examples of storytelling across multiple genres.

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Book Review: “The Fires of Lust” — Copulation in the Middle Ages

September 13, 2022
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.

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Opera Album Review: Donizetti’s Teacher Reveals His Own Operatic Mastery in a World-Premiere Recording of “Elena”

March 10, 2022
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This first-rate performance highlights the special attractions of the “half-serious” operatic genre.

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Jazz Album Review: Tony Williams’s “Play or Die” Gets Full Release, 40 Years On

September 5, 2022
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The shadow of Weather Report looms over this groove session of consonant harmonies, the only documentation of a short-lived band that should have had the chance to burn more brightly.

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Classical Album Reviews: Beethoven’s “Leonore,” Tesla Quartet’s “Joy & Desolation,” and Emmanuel Pahud’s “Dreamtime”

December 22, 2019
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A fresh, bracing take on Beethoven as a dramatist, Tesla Quartet serves up refreshingly direct and emotionally-complex performances of Mozart, and flautist Emmanuel Pahud has crafted an ear-catching, unpredictable program.

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Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History

February 22, 2017
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This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.

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Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

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Stage Review: “Sinners” — Theater that Matters

March 29, 2017
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Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 19

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

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