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Theater Reviews: Smash Broadway Revival of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” and the Debut of His Final Show, “Here We Are”

November 21, 2023
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A Stephen Sondheim flop returns in triumph, while his final show tantalizes with what could have been.

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Music Feature: 20 Moments That Made Us Glad Live Music Returned in 2022

December 30, 2022
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Still, for all the gloom and doom, there’s no question that a bountiful amount of live music was finally on offer throughout the year as musicians and presenters continued to defy the odds.

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Film Commentary: Time to Reduce Filmmaking’s Carbon Footprint

July 23, 2021
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It is about time that the filmmaking industry is forced to seriously grapple with issues of sustainability.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Four)

October 25, 2021
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.

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Opera Album Review: “Der ferne Klang” Does Its Thing and Does It Amazingly Well

March 23, 2022
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I am beginning to suspect that Franz Schreker was the most effective of the many semi-forgotten opera composers who were active in the German lands during the first decades of the twentieth century (that is, ones less well known today than Strauss, Berg, and Kurt Weill).

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Film Commentary: Submitting to “The Master”

October 8, 2012
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Director Paul Thomas Anderson doesn’t provide answers nor does he pose questions: the ambiguity of his characters and his confounding storytelling style are what drive “The Master.”

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Concert Review: Linda J. Chase — “The City Is Burning”

November 11, 2017
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Chase’s iconoclastic genre-crossing oratorio proceeds from dark to light, and wins its struggle for transcendence.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 28

September 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 14

September 14, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1923-1955

March 23, 2015
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This first group of mavericks all have their roots in the 1920s, but they demonstrate that George Gershwin’s way wasn’t the only way.

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