Despite some interpretive shortcomings, Sean Newhouse, the orchestra’s 30-year-old assistant conductor has solid technique, and a major orchestra whose players, management, and audience be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:01PMIn locales as varied as Israel, Kenya, Massachusetts, and the country of the brain, and in rough groupings of poems about small daily epiphanies, relationships, loss and death, and the sad a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMIdes of March" tells the same old political story: we know how tedious the campaign season is, we know that deals are made behind doors and that all that really matter are the numbers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:59AMTraveling the world is satisfying, but no more so than journeys of the mind. The musical voyage I took with the Chiara Quartet was a trip worth savoring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PMAudra McDonald is so popular on stage, in concert, and on television that she has become, to many, a one-name goddess like Bette, Judy, and Barbara. Judging from her recent star turn in the …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:46PMLeon Trotsky: A Revolutionary Life, by Joshua Rubenstein, Yale University Press, [] pages, $ by Harvey Blume Who was Leon Trotsky? Today, this is hardly the burning question it was when Jose…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:24PMNew England theaters, and especially Boston's, have compiled a fantastic lineup of programs for October, a classically-great month for films (especially if horror is your thing).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMHonestly, the first thought I had when the two-hour Wilco show wrapped up was, when will I see this band again?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AM"South Pacific" endures in this production (and will in others) because it centers on two love stories that are “lovely beyond description.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:51PMA Far Cry's youthful exuberance is no doubt one of the most important keys to its egalitarian vision, but a good share of the credit is due to intelligence, vision, and carefully-honed and f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:58PMAll in all an inspiring evening; we need new works to continue to expand our ears’ ability to capture new sounds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:29PMThe quality varies at the TWTF, but here is a chance to become aware of rarely done Williams plays. And if a production does not measure up to one's expectations, the effort will inspire a f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AM"Next Fall" is so anxious not to polarize or offend that it ends up as little more than well-meaning. Something serious seems to be happening on stage, but for all intents and purposes the c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMComparing Rick Berry's paintings with Damon Lehrer’s exquisitely rendered, classical and contemplative work made me wonder about the expressionist style in general. By this I mean that art…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMIn this delightful production of "Candide," director Mary Zimmerman imaginatively reworks and mischievously augments the musical. Her deliciously blowzy approach embraces, with charming lyri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:03PMGoldoni's popularity is based on fast-paced plots, not poetic dialogue, depth of characterization, or philosophical content. While playwright Bean hews closely to the storyline of the origin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMThe Lexington Symphony is a far more professional orchestra than the typical community orchestras around Boston (Newton Symphony, Waltham Symphony, Brookline Symphony, the Longwood Symphony)…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44PMThe audience, seated at tables in semi-darkness, responded to TV talk-show style questions. At first, we raised our hands to vote on generic, consensus-building questions: Who believes in p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11AMThe astonishing exhibition "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge" has the strange beauty and density of a scientific diagram or star chart. You can’t examine it deeply all at once. It is be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMIn "Drive," director Nicolas Winding Refn crafts a cool, tight and stylish film that gets away with a lot. He managed to make a movie that works as some kind of bizarre but wonderful Michael…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15AM"The Lady With All the Answers" presents the columnist Ann Landers as a person who just might write a letter to Ann herself. Her faith in herself and her work is unquestioned, even as her ow…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMGaleet Dardashti is a trailblazing musician: she is the first woman in her celebrated family to perform Persian Jewish music
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:16PMDespite its serious script and premise, "Contagion" is somehow able to retain a subtle element of “fun,” an at least marginal feat for a movie in which scores of people die in nearly eve…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:20AMThe beginning of a not-bad fall film season in New England, with some Woody Allen classics, an Iranian melodrama among the youth set, an appearance by a legendary Japanese experimental film …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMEach of the paintings in Anne Leone's Cenote Series shows the water’s surface, always from below. The world of air is invisible to us, off limits, mysterious. This membrane between worlds …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMThe Tanglewood team of Morgan Freeman, Gil Shaham, and John Williams served up an evening of memorable performances of music from the movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMFor French writer Pierre-Albert Jourdan, paradox and its close kin aphorism were ways to approach the ineffable, the infinite, the immanent, and above all the state of unity between self and…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMWhat could have been a readable, informative, pleasurable book that would, much like Woody Allen’s recent film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, enhance our experience of some of the modernist figures we…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMNarrative holes and esoteric tendencies aside, SENNA is remarkable for its feat of compiling what must have been hundreds if not thousands of hours of Formula One footage. The film is surpri…
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