Monday, September 24, 2012
No question that the culture of Mexico is suffused with memories of music, bright colors, and joy. Would that contemporary political realities reflected more closely the life-enhancing image…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52PMSunday, September 23, 2012
Alice Oswald’s "Memorial" begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship’s roll. If you know the old stories, you’ll begin to recognize some names, and then star…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21PMRay Charles had one of the great voices of the 20th century, and even the best singers have very large shoes to fill when paying tribute.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:31AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
In order to pay tribute to the supreme Frits Lugt and his Fondation Custodia -- and to protest the announced closing of the Institut Néerlandais with which it is joined -- the column descri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMThursday, September 20, 2012
Musician Patty Schemel's slow climb to sobriety and wellness serves as the gripping backbone of the documentary "Hit So Hard," to the point that it is difficult to believe that someone thump…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:04PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Ralph Peterson is interested in furthering a complex, post-bop legacy. His music can be hard to count: it’s also rip-roaring fun.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01AMThursday, September 13, 2012
em>The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of "The Mikado" supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:24PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
"Why has it taken so long for me to come back home? I don’t know. I have been thinking about it for years and it just never quite seemed like the right time until now."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:40PMMonday, September 3, 2012
"Ruby Sparks" is more than a sweetly moving love story with a happy ending; to their credit, the filmmakers add some disturbingly nightmarish edges to its "Pygmalion” meets "Frankenstein" …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:15PMSaturday, September 1, 2012
Fans of classical piano should find this collection of performancs by something of an institution around Boston a rare delight.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:33PM"Rounding Third" flounders most when it tries to get serious. Luckily, it doesn’t try very hard, and delivers considerable amusement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMMonday, August 27, 2012
As legions of college students flood back into New England, there is plenty going on to help you forget the woes of being trapped behind an out-of-towner’s U-Haul truck at an overpass on S…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMFriday, August 24, 2012
If the poems in "That Said: New and Selected Poems" had been ordered differently, the volume would have made more of its virtues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Composer John Williams has often stated that Tanglewood has been among his favorite places to visit -- and the feeling is mutual.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMInternational noir novels no longer revolve around exotic police procedurals or gimmicky detective stories. They aim to pound readers into the pavement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:57AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
A mural painted on the side of a Big Dig ventilation structure in the Boston’s Financial District has generated enormous controversy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PMActor Jack Koenig never flags in the Peterborough Players production of "Present Laughter," and around him in his London studio-flat swirls a churning world of impertinent employees and past…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Bassist Michael Feinberg has done many things right in his richly varied tribute to the great percussionist Elvin Jones.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:55AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Matt Bunsen and the Burners proves that comedic music can not only be funny, but also well-crafted and artful commentary.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:51PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Helen Constantine's new translation of Balzac's "The Wild Ass's Skin" serves this wonderful and weird book well. It is one of the great, black comic fables in world literature, a dazzlingly …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
In the heartrending "Three Strong Women," award-winning novelist Marie NDiaye infuses her Senegalese women characters with a personal sense of dignity and a strong belief in self.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMMonday, August 13, 2012
When the performance ended and I sat there, silent, reveling with the rest of the audience in the goose bumps that inevitably occur after such an experience, I knew, in my bones, that no mov…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AMMonday, August 6, 2012
"The Dream of the Celt" succeeds at educating its readers about the worlds in which Sir Roger Casement lived his successive lives, but not about his successive personalities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31PMGreg Hawkes and his trio are proof that in the right hands, with the right material, an evening of ukulele is a marvelous showcase for the pure beauty of great songwriting and the virtuosic …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMInstead of painting the vibrant and colorful scene which is New Orleans, author Matt Miller supplies dry exposition about each event via a blow-by-blow chronological time line.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AMSaturday, August 4, 2012
"The Admirable Crichton" premiered in 1902, but the Peterborough Players bring this comedy about class division off admirably -- as classy theater, not anthropology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Wadada Leo Smith's album contains avant-garde music with a human face, intimate and appealing and beautifully played by a band of virtuosos.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
For anyone interested in classical music, "Motherless Child" is a novel to be savored. And there is no doubt that Zeitlin has gotten those details right. She is the widow of the great violin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMOlympia Dukakis' Prospera is no tough feminist deity commanding a tiny kingdom. She is at her best when she plays the character as a feisty, down-to-earth mother who wants the best for her d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12AMSunday, July 29, 2012
When I first learned of the shooting in Aurora, I immediately thought, "Wonder how long it’ll take until someone blames the movie."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:59PMAugust ushers in some Lo-fi indie here in New England. Sebadoh and HR from Bad Brains are the well-knowns, but homegrown musicians Dan Blakeslee and School for Robots show us that minimalist…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:30AM 
