“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
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Fuse Views: No More Double Talk at WGBH?
This is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
Fuse News Review: Terry Gross’s Thrice-Told Tales
What has NPR’s Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people’s psyches? “We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain.”
Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed
Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.
Arts Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story
Isaiah Sheffer’s lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.
Short Fuse Book Review and Interview: “The Lost History of 1914” — Almost the War That Wasn’t
In his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.
Coming Attractions in Theater: March 2011
An exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts