Wondering 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…
Boston 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 and…
A 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…
We need the humanities because we need imagination that works outside the narrow channels where the sciences succeed.
While 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 performa…
"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 fasci…
In 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…
Part 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 w…
It 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…
Morikeba Kouyate's vocals were amazing in their articulation and expression.
The 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…
For a polarized nation, both pre-occupied and Occupied, the musical "Angel Reapers" is an inspiring Shaker gift.
Wendy Artin is not just about representation. Her paintings bring up all sorts of questions about the complexities of beauty. How do we build up beauty from matter? What happens to beauty ov…
Essentially, Kaiser's plaint about the vanishing critic is useless because he, and so many other cultural kingpins worried about the end of professional criticism, offer no solutions.
While the BSO's inventive program this week had the potential to plumb the heights and depths of human experience, Saturday's performance generally lacked the necessary conviction, purpose, …
You see, Victor knows he is in a theater, telling stories. And he tells us this. His self-awareness as a performer gives him the freedom to be completely honest.
The New Century Chamber Orchestra's ability to vividly bring to life music of delicate character was on full display in this concert, part of the 152nd Worcester Music Festival.
The Chorus pro Musica is off to a good start for the season and can be looked to for continued artistry in the choral realm. The concert was, with my exceptions noted, a rewarding afternoon …
The Australian Pink Floyd Show is a tribute band, but not just any tribute band. TAPFS is considered the best tribute band in the world today, a title they have defended since 1988.
The awkward logic of "Anonymous" turns the initially stalwart Ben Jonson into a ludicrous double-dealer, who advances his supreme tribute ('Soul of the age!'), to a man he knows to have been…
Macbeth, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. Staged by the Boston Lyric Opera at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, through November 13. by Jonathan B…
The nine tales found in "Maybe This Time" chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike depende…
Boston's Cantata Singers opens its 48th season with an eclectic musical mix of the Baroque and the Modern.
Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?
Betsy Burleigh was in command throughout the concert, and she is steering the Providence Singers in a solid direction.