Friday, April 20, 2012
Mistranslation weaves through this lecture, for every translation is a mistranslation. But that is what makes them fruitful. As soon as we mis-hear or fail to understand, the brain construct…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Supplementing Eugene O'Neill's high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53PM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
Discovery Ensemble occupies a rare space in two major respects: programming demanding works and executing them with spirit, enthusiasm, and inspired music making.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02PM[SHARE]As the BSO searches for its new music director, Mr. Salonen's name is sure to come up. While he's probably a long-shot candidate, any orchestra that has him on their podium for a week or two…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:40PM[SHARE]In D. A. Powell's latest volume, the dominant landscape is that of the wasting body, which is crisscrossed, investigated, confronted, and made useful again as a map in the hands of raw youth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
"Fairness and Freedom" is a cultural/political/social history of the United States and New Zealand in one volume. To the general reader's likely question, "Why would anyone put the two in on…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
William Kentridge spoke of the value of using a mirror to re-learn what he already knew how to do; the clear implication was that we are daily surrounded by mirror-images that we do not see …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
What lies in the future for the critically praised organization? Music director Courtney Lewis has plans that will keep him with the Discovery Ensemble for some time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
If the icon is both a window into the mystical experience of the painter and a door allowing the saint to come into the believer's world, am I, unbeliever that I am, hoping to stand in the l…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
This recording heralds a serious, probing musician exploring some vital, if unfamiliar, twentieth-century violin repertoire, and, as such, presents a more-than-welcome addition to recent sol…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2012
The core claim of the book is that the contemporary culture is nihilistic in outlook, but unnecessarily so. The authors believe there to be a remedy to our debilitating amnesia "- to integra…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:59AM[SHARE]For the reader who is not already a William Carlos Williams enthusiast, the biography provides a good corrective to the Norton Anthology picture of Williams as the poet of tiny images, of pl…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 7, 2012
If a few of his tempos, particularly in the opening movement, weren't among the liveliest on record, there was a gravitas and underlying conviction to Mr. von Dohnányi's interpretation of…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:32PM[SHARE]This CD marks a turning point: a solo effort by Basya Schechter with outstanding back-up by a wide range of musicians that features music based on the Yiddish poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:41AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
A new Haggadah has recently been published, the "New American Haggadah," edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander. It's getting a lot of attention and some criticism…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The strength of the poetry is the ambiance it creates. Narrative is almost totally submerged in imagery, which may seem natural enough in verse but often is not the case.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:56AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
While "The Deep Blue Sea" may be a throwback to another era, director Terence Davies has used his masterful style to engage the audience cinematically and psychologically in an elegant circu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
In "Gatz," F Scott Fitzgerald's words come at the audience like bullets because they are so relevant to so much of American life today. And create the kind of catharsis, that peculiar combi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:22PM[SHARE]Recently, Bostonians were privileged to witness Kotoji Bando and his troupe in a lavish display of disciplined dance, song, and instrumental music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AM[SHARE]It's film festival time! That means you need to stretch, exercise, and drink plenty of liquids because there's a lot to see. The month is capped with an amazing line up of 66 features at the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Director Robert Lepage's "The Andersen Project" is a masterful meditation on the painful process of artistic creation. Few scripts bring opportunism and magic together so effortlessly.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Several adjectives apply to Coro Allegro's approach to music: elegance, finesse, and refinement.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2012
Chameleon Arts Ensemble's program, "into unison with romantic spirit," contained more rarities than many chamber music groups perform in a season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22PM[SHARE]The Fuse's man in Europe is a museum junkie. During the second half of 2011, he got to lots of new destinations, and he found new museums almost everywhere he went. This installment is about…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Israeli Stage's readings are consistently the best attended in the Boston area demonstrating that there is a great appetite for Israeli culture beyond folk dance and hummus.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:47PM[SHARE]The concert's other purely orchestral work, Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony (no. 3), came after intermission and offered Mr. Valcuha the opportunity to demonstrate his command of large-sca…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:05PM[SHARE]Although there is room for improvement, the singers engage each other, as well as the orchestra, with vigor and skill, making for a satisfying "Snegurochka" in Russian.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
WAM's Chamber Music Series is a model for what chamber music performance ought to be: excellent musicians performing in a small space with a rather informal air to the proceedings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
The Dropkick Murphys shipped up to Lowell for their 2012 St. Patrick's Day concert, and the Arts Fuse was there.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53PM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Director Johnnie To has a playfulness found in much Hong Kong cinema. He has found a different way to unfold a story, making clear how money and greed can inform everything, but with plenty …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The singers were in the mood, in a manner of speaking, and although they seemed quite still in posture, their voices generated an inner dance filled with delightful variations as they advanc…
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