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World Music/Crash Arts

Fuse Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers—Dense and Transparent Layers

Doug Varone’s strong sense of design, color, and music lends depth and a certain mystery to his dances.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Doug Varone, Doug Varone and Dancers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Marcia B. Siegel, The Fabulist, World Music/Crash Arts

Film Preview: Sheer Silent Film Magic — “He Who Gets Slapped” and The Alloy Orchestra

“Lon Chaney is just a master,” says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, “and the film ‘He Who Gets Slapped’ has everything that he’s great at.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview Tagged: He Who Gets Slapped, MGM, Roger Miller, The Alloy Orchestra, World Music/Crash Arts

Dance Review — India Jazz Suites, Where Kathak and Tap Meet

While jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about “fusion.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Dance, Featured, World Music Tagged: Chitresh Das Dance Company, ICA, India Jazz Suites, Jason Samuels Smith, Kathak, Pandit Chitresh Das, tap, World Music/Crash Arts

Concert Review: Paco de Lucía — The Rock Star of Flamenco Guitar

There was nothing in the program about the pieces he and his fellow musicians would be playing, but no one seemed to care. Most already knew the music from Paco de Lucía’s recordings. They were coming to hear him live, and there was not an empty seat to be seen in the Boston Opera House.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: flamenco, guitar, Paco de Lucía, World Music/Crash Arts

Classical Music Sampler: April 2012

April is an unusually excellent month for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts — a promisng match up of programs and conductors.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: Borromeo Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Church of St. John Evangelist, Handel and Haydn Society, Lisa Saffer, Music for Food, Music from Marlboro, Paco de Lucía, Rafael Popper Kaiser, Sephardic Music, the Emerson String Quartet, World Music/Crash Arts

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