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The issues might seem highly technical and of interest only to specialists, but I think they do matter. In the first place they matter as a corrective to our understanding of Rembrandt, but they also matter for the critical insights they offer into the techniques and practices of scholarship. By Gary Schwartz Earlier columns were…
Read MoreWords of solace and insight for the New Year culled by Harvey Blume (Short Fuse)—the sentiments are shared by the rest of the Arts Fuse contributors and editorial staff. This has been a great year for the magazine, and there are exciting developments to come. ========================================= My aim is: to teach you to pass from…
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Read MoreI wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.
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There are reassuring lyrics here that suggest that, no matter what terror comes along, our noble charge is to fight to the end, joyously.
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By drawing on the insight and humor in Don DeLillo’s novel, Noah Baumbach manages to find (at least for me) affirmation and comfort in this portrait of the randomness of contemporary existence.
Read MoreEven the hippest of us can succumb to a deep longing for harmony, lush orchestration, and magic.
Read MoreThis was a stirring, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, moving reading of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — The More Things Change …
At the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival we tend to gravitate to the locals and other “regional acts” from around the world and hope, most of all, for those surprises — artists unlike any we’ve seen before, anywhere.
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