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Coming Attractions: July 30 through August 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 30, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Festival Review: Ten Highlights from Big Ears 2025

April 6, 2025
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Despite — or maybe because of — all the global turmoil, an awful lot of compelling music was heard at Big Ears.

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Concert Review: In Austin, Texas — Three Major Acts of State-of-the-Art Progressive Jazz

October 2, 2024
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It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.

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Opera Album Review: An Opéra-Comique from 1832 Shines Again in a Superb Recording

March 10, 2021
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Performed 1600 times in Paris, then forgotten, Hérold’s brilliantly witty, Le pré aux clercs shines again in a splendid recording.

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Book Review: “Blowout” — A Devastating Vision of What is at Stake

November 22, 2019
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This is a brilliant book that comes at a propitious time in our country’s history.

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Book Review: “Dreaming The Beatles” — A Missed Opportunity

July 18, 2018
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Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.

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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto –Revisiting the Jazz Side

April 16, 2015
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What I’ve learned from three years of research and listening is that the piano concerto is an ideal vehicle with which individual composers can experiment

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Book Review: “The Virtues of Poetry” — Fascinating But Frustrating

April 20, 2013
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James Longenbach’s ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays so often tie themselves into semantic and logical knots.

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Television Review: “Fire in the Maternity Ward ” — On the Knife-Edge Between Humor and Outrage

August 6, 2019
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If, like me, you tend to see laughter as a form of catharsis then a serious question is raised: is laughing at nihilistic humor all that healthy?

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Music Preview: Allan Harris — A Soulful One-Man Jazz Jukebox

January 10, 2017
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“Music is to be shared, no matter what genre it is.

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