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Music Interview: Prizing the Peculiar – “The Ivan Variations” Performed by the Chandler Travis  Philharmonic

February 22, 2021
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“The Ivan Variations is kind of a departure for me, though some would argue that my whole career is a departure, and I hope they’re right!”

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Opera Album Review: Donizetti’s Teacher Takes Center Stage — Mayr’s “I Cherusci”

January 31, 2021
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This splendid world-premiere recording proves that, as an opera composer, Johann Simon Mayr had “the whole package.”

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Music Documentary: “The Beatles: Get Back” — Back to Where They Once Belonged

December 7, 2021
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Who else, but The Beatles, could command this much attention, of this many people, for that long of a time, and still be interesting, even joyous?

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Opera Album Review: A Rossini “Semi-Serious” Opera That Works Like a Charm

August 11, 2021
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This new recording would be a great, and inexpensive, way to enter the sound world of Rossini’s mature operas.

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Visual Arts Review: New Public Art — Past, Present, and Future Ghosts of the Imagination

July 24, 2021
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Recently, a number of public artworks have been charged with memorializing ghosts or “specters” of the past.

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Book Review: “Crown & Sceptre” — A Quick Walk Through the British Monarchy

February 21, 2022
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Crown & Sceptre is generally amusing and it has the instructional benefit of helping readers keep the Williams, Henrys, Edwards, and Georges who have occupied the ancient throne straight.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 23

October 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

September 21, 2017
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Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

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Cultural Commentary: Time for Arts Groups, Large and Small, to Display Some Bona Fide Irreverence

June 25, 2025
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The question before arts organizations and companies is the same one that looms over the rest of us: will they—can they—act before it’s too late?

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 28, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, visual arts, and dance that’s coming up this week.

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