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Book Interview: William F. Buckley on TV’s “Firing Line” — “Open to Debate”

“Conservatism was his perspective, but William F. Buckley was really interested in having the other side on and having real discussions.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Film, Judicial Review Tagged: Firing Line, Heather Hendershot, How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line, MIT, Open to Debate, William F. Buckley

Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

Sax doctor Emilio Lyons at work.

Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Boston Jazz Week, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Schools, Danilo Perez, Emilio Lyons, Fred Taylor, harvard-university, Herbie Hancock, International Jazz Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, Jazz April, Jazz Journalists Association, JazzBoston, Mark Harvey, MIT, New England Conservatory, Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO

Fuse Movie Review: “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” — Martyr to Prosecutors’ Zeal?

Aaron Swartz is indeed a martyr, but there’s more here. The film identifies an ongoing battle over control of information as much as it explores a troubled life that ended far too soon.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Aaron Swartz, Brian Knappenberger, David D'Arcy, documentary, Edward Snowden, he Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, MIT

Jazz Week 2013: After a tumultuous year, Boston looks ahead

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In the wake of the horrors of last week, Jazz Week 2013 comes as almost an act of defiance, an insistence that life will go on in all sectors of the Boston community.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Arni Cheatham, Herb Pomeroy, International Jazz Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, Jazz April, Jazz Week, MIT, Wally's Café

Coming Attractions in Underground Music: March 2012

March brings a solid lineup of experimental music, including electronic and indie rock shows. The indisputable highlight of the month is Steve Reich at MIT.

By: David Cooper Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: 2x5, and C Dubz, Banditas, Bang on a Can, Boddika, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Clapping Music, Club Soto, Cuffs, Electric Counterpoint, Fat History Month, Gert-Jan Prins, Goodlife Bar, Lasse Marhaug, MIT, Nick Zammuto, Scuba, Steve-Reich, The Clippers

Coming Attractions in Underground Music: December 2011

MIT saves a December void of underground musical events by hosting Florian Hecker and Terry Riley.

By: David Cooper Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Popular Music Tagged: Florian Hecker, Gamelan Galak Tika gamelan, MIT, Terry Riley

Visual Arts: Pythagoras Returns — Sound Sculpture at Kendall T Stop Chimes Again (Revised)

What the artist didn’t count on was the popularity of the Kendall Band, coupled with its fragility relative to the strength and number of its users, would result in frequent breakdowns. The Kendall Band was the only interactive piece of public art in the MBTA’s “Arts on the Line” program, and the agency had no […]

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Music, Visual Arts Tagged: Galleries, Kendall Band, Kendall Band Preservation Society, MIT, Paul Matisse, Pythagoras, sound sculpture

Arts Commentary: The Brave New World of Videogame Art

So let’s steady that swaying hive, put down the poking stick, and take a deep breath. Games continue to evolve in creative, unexpected ways, and the mechanics of gameplay can form the basis of intriguing and thought-provoking works of art.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Video Games Tagged: art, Cow Clicker, Fatale, GAMBIT, Into the Pixel, Machinima, MIT, Sixteen Tons, Tale of Tales, The Graveyard, Videogames

Culture Review: AT MIT, an exhilarating example of 21st-century, multi-media collaboration

It would have been easy to make an entire season out of the ideas the Boston Chamber Music Society compressed into one afternoon; as it is, the wealth of material had the audience buzzing during the two intermissions. Some found the multi-media presentation too much of a good thing. I found it exhilarating and challenging […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Visual Arts Tagged: arts, Boston Chamber Music Society, Culture Vulture, Milhaud, MIT, MIT Music and Theater Arts Faculty, Multi-media, Poulenc, Ravel, Satie, Stravinsky

Classical Music Sampler: October 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb. October 2: The Longwood Symphony Orchestra opens its 28th season, the sixth under conductor Jonathan McPhee, with a program of Sibelius and Delius. Award-winning Zina Schiff will be soloist in the demanding Sibelius Violin Concerto. Also on the program are Sibelius’s “Karelia Suite” and Delius’ lovely “Walk to the Paradise Garden.” At […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: A House in Bali, Boston, Boston University, Caldwell-Titcomb, Charlie Albright, Church of St. John the Evangelist, Classical Music, Exsultemus, Gardner Museum, Harlem String Quartet, Longwood-Symphony-Orchestra, MIT, New England, New England Conservatory Symphony, Paul Bowles, Stile Antico, The Boston Conservatory, The Boston Early Music Festival, The Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Till Fellner, Yerma

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