Now that the new year is here, midseason breaks are winding down, which makes it the perfect time to reflect on the television programs that premiered in the fall –- and will soon be back …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:29PMPaul Goodman was a professed anarchist — not the bomb-throwing kind, who believe destruction is foreplay to solution, but the anti-violent kind, deriving from the nineteenth century Russia…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:51PMAn underground academic critic explores the fascinating intersections between the Kardashian sisters' novel "Dollhouse" and Ibsen's play "A Doll House." The more things change ...
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMA Dangerous Method" fits neatly into director David Cronenberg’s body of work, which is often obsessed with a body-mind connection
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMBoston Baroque closed out 2011 and began 2012 with an engaging program of pieces by Corelli, Handel, Bach, and Vivaldi that featured some rather unfamiliar instruments and repertoire. Martin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:17PMDirector Steve McQueen’s skillful exploration of troubled human behavior and his use of New York as a psychological landscape make "Shame" off-putting to watch, while at the same time it d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AMLegendary soul and gospel diva Mavis Staples will ‘take you there’, into the New Year, at Symphony Hall (@ 9 p.m.) this Saturday, December 31th, marking the performer's First Night debut…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMThe Chatham Chorale, judging from the Chamber Singers, has the potential to perform with excellence. But it must be demanded of them, which takes informed and determined direction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AM“I considered it desirable that he should know nothing about me but it was even better if he knew several things which were quite wrong.” ("The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien)
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMMahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008 at the age of sixty-seven, was best and heroically known for his complex perspective on political and spiritual borders — as both a poet and a spokesman f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20PMAs nicely played as the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky were, I left feeling that there was something distinctly anticlimactic about the Aviv Quartet’s programming choices. I would much rather…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:47PMThe play does not address Hannah Arendt's rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Martin Heidegger, though the dramatist's title hints that it is the banal truth of the irratio…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:31PMWhat the few of us in Jordan Hall heard that night was a richly conceived and beautifully performed song cycle, mostly serious, but with some great wit in exactly the right places. It made f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:49AMThe superb Harvard University Choir, which is arguably one of the best ensembles of its kind in the country, was in fine form throughout the evening.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:22PMIn "Three Pianos," three young actor-musicians unite in their irreverent passion for the music of Franz Schubert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48PM"High"'s set-up is simple enough -- three characters with billboard-sized guilt complexes collide.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:58AMPlaywright John Hodge chooses to ignore the complexity of the dissident writer's experience — expedience for the sake of protecting something of value from destruction, a writer fighting h…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:09PMLosing It" explores growing old through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past—the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah—to which the author adds a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMAll in all, this Boston Camerata concert featured fine musicianship, expertise in voice and every instrument, scholarly renditions of the scores and texts, and joyful music making.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28AMWondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem -- the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with thoughtf…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21AMBoston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:51PMA guide to help listeners appreciate Chorus pro Musica's upcoming performance of Resphighi's "Lauda per la Natività del Signore," which makes exquisite musical drama of a medieval hymn of p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:23PMWe need the humanities because we need imagination that works outside the narrow channels where the sciences succeed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMWhile I’m not necessarily sold on this particular interpretation of Mahler Symphony no. 1, it was a thoughtful reading led with conviction; conductor Ludovic Morlot drew a committed perfor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17PM"Galileo’s Muse" is a gem of a book: shedding new light on a figure as well-examined figure as Galileo is no simple task. Author Mark Peterson does so with aplomb, while also telling a fas…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMIn his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreig…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMPart of the great experiment that is Artisan’s Asylum: meeting your neighbors, realizing you need someone to help you solder/weld/create a 3d prototype, and then wandering amongst the open…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMIt was clear from the moment Ludovic Morlot mounted the podium that he and the Boston Symphony Orchestra possess a strong chemistry: the players clearly respect him and they responded to his…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMMorikeba Kouyate’s vocals were amazing in their articulation and expression.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMThe Worcester Chamber Music Society's combination of repertoire demonstrated how creative programming can lead to highly satisfying musical results: each piece had something to say to or abo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:12AMFor a polarized nation, both pre-occupied and Occupied, the musical "Angel Reapers" is an inspiring Shaker gift.
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