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Coming Attractions: August 13 through 29 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 13, 2023
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Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Review: Recommendations — Architecture and Design Documentaries for the Housebound

March 29, 2020
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Films for those who practice — or are just interested in — design, architecture, and urban planning

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Theater Review: “Laughs in Spanish” — The Art of the Heart

September 17, 2024
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Is it possible for an outstanding actress to achieve similar heights as a playwright? The answer is yes, but with reservations.

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Stage Review: Hershey Felder’s “Abe Lincoln’s Piano” — Hits Some Wrong Notes

May 23, 2014
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“Abe Lincoln’s Piano” does not evoke in us the same sense of astonishment that Hershey Felder feels toward his antiquarian discoveries.

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Classical CD Reviews: “Babel,” Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass for the Endangered,” and John Luther Adams’ “Become Trilogy”

December 16, 2020
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Calidore String Quartet’s Babel is one of the year’s best albums; Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered offers an unsettling and beautifully direct rethinking of the traditional Roman liturgy; for John Luther Adams fans – and the Adams-curious – Become Trilogy is a must.

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Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler’s Symphony no. 2

September 28, 2013
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If Thursday’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was marked by some untidiness, the broad picture to emerge was one of often thrilling, Apollonian grandeur.

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Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60

September 29, 2019
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You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.

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Jazz Appreciation and Preview: James Carter — Life Begins at Fifty

March 13, 2019
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Whom can we thank at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for choosing James Carter to be the featured saxophone soloist in March 23’s concert at Symphony Hall?

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Book Review: “The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock”  — The Art of Doing Nothing, Well

October 29, 2020
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Dan Callahan has crafted an entertaining and illuminating guide to understanding Hitchcock’s relationship with some of the most iconic actors of the day.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 24

April 24, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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