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The Crier’s program pairs three composers one doesn’t always find together. As is likewise the norm with this group and their selections, everything somehow connects – and on multiple levels.
Read MoreFuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman is currently surveying works that illuminate the tradition of the jazz-influenced piano concerto. His series began with an examination of Chick Corea’s current recording, The Continents. In part two, he takes a look at eight works by jazz composers that precede the release of Corea’s work. This post is a…
Read MoreThe Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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I don’t know anything quite like Mehmet Ali Sanlikol’s Turko-jazz playing. (I invented the term.) I am glad it’s here for us to enjoy.
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Now fifty years old, a venerable landmark, in what ways does hip hop stay put or embrace evolution and change?
Read MoreHave we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?
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To be silent in the face of cruelty is to be complicit. And I refuse to be complicit. Surely we have to recognize that there are differences in taste. But to skewer another writer with such precision and glee? That is beyond the pale, especially in these perilous times.
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“Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.” is compelling, but its message feels hermetically sealed — the exhibit needs to draw crucial connections with what is going on now.
Read More1984‘s theatrical vision of authoritarianism in action is not for the faint of heart.
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