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Music Commentary: Thoughts on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-18 Season

April 11, 2017
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On paper, at least, the upcoming season of the BSO is a bit of a letdown: cautious, unthreatening, comfortable.

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Coming Attractions: February 25 through March 13 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 25, 2018
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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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Film Review: “Lisa Frankenstein” — Chivalry Is Dead

February 19, 2024
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“Lisa Frankenstein” is the first delightful surprise of 2024, destined for weird girl slumber party greatness in a few years time.

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Jazz Commentary: Four Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — New Wine in New Bottles

October 4, 2023
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Four recent releases illustrate what can happen when the only limits are the imagination of the composer and the passion of the performers.

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Book Review: A Progressive Manifesto — “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream”

May 4, 2023
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.

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Fuse Jazz Preview: Southeast by Northwest, the Festival Season Kicks Off this Weekend

June 4, 2016
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From Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.

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Opera Review: Arabs on the Operatic Stage — Meyerbeer’s 1814 Comic Opera about the Mysterious ‘East’

January 26, 2022
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Long before the often-prejudicial portrayals of Middle Easterners in Hollywood films, opera composers crafted insightful works from 1001 Nights.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 15

September 15, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Classical Album Review: A Glorious Offering of Unrecorded and Other Rarely Performed Bizet Works

July 7, 2025
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The new “Portrait” package contains five hours of music by Bizet that is mostly unknown to music lovers and music lovers. Plus one of his best operas, a one-act written just before “Carmen”: 1872’s “Djamileh,” which is set in a harem.

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Theater Review Diary: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival — A Worthy Theatrical Adventure

October 11, 2013
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is an annual theatrical adventure for many on the West coast, and should become one for the rest of the country – but make reservations early.

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