Aequa is one of a year's standout new-music album. Philip Glass's Symphony no. 11 suggests that the composer has more than a few tricks yet up his sleeve. And Neave Trio's Celebrating Piazzo…
Rev William Barber II has effectively demonstrated again and again what he often calls "fusion politics" across lines of race, age, and religion.
Visions Take Flight is one of those rarest of accomplishments: a contemporary music album that's a sheer joy to listen to, from start to finish. And John Cage on guitar? Why not?
Where do you go once you've watched the classic Xmas films? Some suggestions.
An impressive collection of nine new releases (seven of which are reviewed here). While some might not displace the classic recordings of Debussy already out there, this gathering offers som…
A list of the most memorable opera and vocal recital recordings of the year.
Our critic's twelve favorite classical music performances that he reviewed this past year.
While the push for diversity in casting is admirable, it's not enough to resuscitate a script that feels dated, even regressive in its approach to historical storytelling.
The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.
Armenian cultural history has always been about survival: between Armenians preserving their art within the shifting boundaries of their homeland, and carrying their art beyond the country's…
Quite properly, Miles Evans evokes rather than mimics his dad's arrangements on this excellent disc.
This year's version " the 48th! " of The Christmas Revels is delightful and refreshing way to bid adieu to a tumultuous 2018.
Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.
Septuagenarian, Edwin Ayoung, better known as Crazy, easily carried the rest of the night with his exuberant performance.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Jack Taylor's world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.
Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.
Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón's gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in '70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultu…
I speak for the legions who benefitted from your friendship and your great energy and talent.
This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen's resounding response to the "jazz is dead" chant.
Pete Shelley's elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.
The Tallis Scholars are unquestionably today's most renowned exponent of Renaissance sacred music.
The company's staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.
It's as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.