Tuesday, April 2, 2013
It is April in New England and for local music that means one thing, it’s time to RUMBLE!.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36AMSunday, March 31, 2013
“Henrik Nordbrandt now holds a unique place in his homeland as its most celebrated national poet, who happens to have spent most of his adult life outside Denmark.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMSaturday, March 30, 2013
The Slide Brothers fuse steel with gospel, Etana brings the roots back to reggae, Duke Levine steps out on his own, and much, much more this month.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Is it country? Is it rock? When it’s good, is there really a difference?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:07AMFriday, March 22, 2013
It turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the '70s playing with The Beach Boys.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:52AMAre those who merely stand and watch as guilty as those who drop the bombs, pull the triggers, or run the trains? The question is no less relevant today than more than sixty years ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:45AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn't part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated fail…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver's new novel The End of the …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Recipe for a memorable evening at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium: two of the world’s great clarinetists, an inspiring conductor, a hard-working student band, and a major new piece of the clarin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AMFriday, March 15, 2013
Director Liesl Tommy’s unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry’s classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:34AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
The Celebrity Series of Boston offers top-notch artists and performing ensembles from around the world. With a Russian at the helm, it is no surprise that the Shostakovich Concerto would mat…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19PMFriday, March 8, 2013
In Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer prize-winning play "Clybourne Park," resentment and racism chafe at the thin veneer of polite pleasantries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:43PMThursday, February 28, 2013
It’s March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical off…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:08AMFriday, February 22, 2013
“The Beginning-End of Yiddish,” is poet/essayist Richard Fein’s core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMSunday, February 17, 2013
Postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest versions of Stravinsky ever performed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:13PMFriday, February 15, 2013
No one would say that Terri Lyne Carrington’s versions of Ellington's pieces are definitive, but they extend the legendary composer’s legacy in a personal and significant way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:19PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Peter Hook's memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:54PMHeartbeat is an international non-profit organization that is aimed at uniting Israeli and Palestinian musicians, educators and students in order to transform conflict through the power of m…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. The J. Kates’s technique is…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMMonday, February 11, 2013
The luminous physical beauty of the production staged by the American Repertory Theater, coupled with carefully crafted performances by its performers, makes this a Glass Menagerie to be che…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:07PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
While The Vaccines Come of Age is a very good album, I can’t listen to it without thinking that maybe the band grew up a little too fast.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PMSunday, February 3, 2013
Consider these few notes my handing The Porcupine of Mind off to you — you read it, you write about it, then we’ll come back and talk.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMFilms such as Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters deny audiences the capacity to suspend disbelief. Instead, they use technology to make the impossible look real and the magical seem as this-wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMForget the Superbowl and screw Valentine’s Day. There is too much great music happening in our corner of the country to waste time on such frivolous occasions. Will you need snow boots or …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:35AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
A strong month featuring performances from the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet, vocal group A Far Cry, and new music from Sound Icon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:17PMVocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s exuberance proved contagious in this performance featuring a remarkable group of jazz all-stars under the genial direction of bassist Christian McBride.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMFriday, February 1, 2013
For Langston fails on its own terms, which is to produce a moving, insightful, and in some sense accurate interpretation of the poetry of Langston Hughes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:05PMNotwithstanding all that David Shields writes about the books and authors he loves, both classic and contemporary, he announces that today he can’t bear to write or read novels or even sho…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
American Horror Story: Asylum didn’t skimp on the scary; there’s enough disturbing images per episode to satisfy the most discriminating taste in horror.
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