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Fuse Concert Review: Radius Ensemble’s Season Finale

May 9, 2016
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The Rasas are but the latest in a series of remarkable scores John Harbison has been turning out over his eighth decade.

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Fuse Concert Review: Commonwealth Lyric Theater’s “Mozart and Salieri”

June 13, 2014
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The Commonwealth Lyric Theater has again brought to the fore an underperformed, unfamiliar masterpiece well worth getting to know. Good for them and lucky for us.

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Film Review: “The Lunchbox” — One of the Year’s Best Films

May 12, 2014
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The Lunchbox is that rare film experience that stays with you, makes you think about its multi-layered, subtle performances and storyline, and forces you to see it again.

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Book Review: Transformation Amid an Egypt in Decay — “The House of Jasmine”

February 3, 2013
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Though written in 1984, The House of Jasmine’s description of widespread political corruption and social decay in the Sadat era is powerfully relevant to the uprisings of 2011 when Mubarak was ousted and that are still roiling Egypt today.

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Classical Album Review: “The Other Cleopatra”—Three Major Opera Composers Bring Us the Forgotten Queen of Armenia

July 29, 2021
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A delightful recording — and the first ever! — of arias from Hasse’s and Gluck’s operas about Tigranes and Cleopatra of Pontus. Plus four arias by Vivaldi for that same Cleopatra.

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Theater Review: “Trayf” — By the Book of Numbers

October 23, 2019
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Evaluated as an empathy workout, Trayf never asks us to break a sweat.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 12

January 12, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Shake It Up” — Great American Writing on Rock and Pop

May 8, 2017
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On the whole, this anthology, along with igniting discussions about sins of omission, will make for entertaining browsing.

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Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

August 8, 2017
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I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

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Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a Quarrel

December 17, 2020
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Anahid Nersessian claims that her book is a kind of love story between her and Keats’ odes. But it turns out we have to take her word for that. Too often this study comes off like an acrimonious couple’s counseling session.

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