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Classical CD Review: Schumann, Wagner, and Strauss (Soloists, Bayrisches Staatsorchester/Kent Nagano)

September 20, 2012
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There are plenty of classic recordings of the “Siegfried-Idyll” and “Metamorphosen” already, but here’s one more – and it also includes a rollicking Schumann with which you can’t go wrong.

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CD Review: SHUFFLE Concert — An Inspired Experiment in “Musical Democracy”

February 23, 2014
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SHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.

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Culture Vulture: In Search of Beethoven

January 10, 2010
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Filled with great insights, musical and other, Phil Grabsky’s wonderful documentary on Beethoven depicts “a man of huge intellect and huge heart.” In Search of Beethoven, a documentary by Phil Grabsky (UK, 2009, 139 min). At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Wednesday Jan. 13 at 3:05 pm, Thursday January 14 at 5:10 pm.,…

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Doc Talk: Celebrating Nonfiction Film at the IFFBoston — Seeing Afresh

April 26, 2023
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This is what cinema is all about and these will probably be some of the best movies you will see all year.

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Jazz Review: Chucho Valdés – Joe Lovano Quintet at the Berklee Performance Center — Molto Vivo

November 11, 2016
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Intense head music and powerful foot music, but this show needed a little more heart.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 19

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

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Fuse Commentary: All Cultural Things Shining at the Oscars

April 8, 2012
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The core claim of the book is that the contemporary culture is nihilistic in outlook, but unnecessarily so. The authors believe there to be a remedy to our debilitating amnesia —- to integrate our lives, in some ways, into the world as perceived by our cultural forefathers.

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Movie Review: “The Big Short” — Capitalism Gone Wild, Made Entertaining

December 25, 2015
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The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.

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Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”

May 30, 2015
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.

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Folk Album Review: Tyler Childers’s “Long Violent History” – An Appalachian Murder Ballad for Breonna Taylor

September 26, 2020
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The Kentuckian’s message is one of both heritage and empathy — and the necessity of both.

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