Tuesday, February 14, 2012
All the works were done with balance, appropriate embellishments in the vocal solo and instrumental parts, and with the energy necessary to bring this music into the twenty-first century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2012
Although I was disappointed in this Manhattan Theatre Club production, I am, however, very glad to have seen "Wit" -- it is a contemporary classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2012
Dominique Eade's two greatest gifts are her clarity of musical thought and her courage as an improviser. She does not try to be a cabaret-style interpreter or a ring-a-ding-ding swinger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
What more could you ask than that a musical comedy version of The Addams Family cast a kooky spell?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
Elegantly written, cogently argued, and filled with trenchant artistic analyses, Alexander Marr's book exemplifies interdisciplinary studies at their best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
"69°S" takes risks that never put actual life or limb in danger, but under the static of snow and history, we learn that venturing to the edge is always a kind of art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2012
Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey first performed, as the soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. in the Celebrity Series line-up back in 2007. He made his second appearance at NEC's Jor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:11PM[SHARE]Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: "My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I'm always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why must w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2012
Aside from the intrinsic entertainment value of these operas, they show Ravel in quite a different light than we are used to from his chamber and other orchestral music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:15PM[SHARE]This is a book for anyone interested not just in the economic state of the symphony orchestra, but in the overall financial health of the arts in the United States.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2012
I recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The SAG Awards have everything you want, and very little you don't. The ceremony celebrates film and television, so it's always star-packed, and only honors actors, so you don't have to sit …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2012
After the "Lobgesang"'s premiere, Robert Schumann declared this movement "a glimpse of heaven filled with Raphael's madonnas," and Saturday's performance by the BSO came about as close to th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2012
Though there were differences in quality between the compositions in the BMOP concert, all of the pieces fulfilled the primary requirement of a concerto: they showed off the capabilities of …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PM[SHARE]You may be still catching up on the Academy Award, Golden Globe, People's Choice, or SAG picks. But this month offers some rare and wonderful treats for film fans of all kinds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
Italian writer Niccolò Ammaniti usually writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy. "Me and You," a slender effort in all respects, covers th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Cantata Singers approached both works with the sensitivities that each required. Music Director David Hoose retained the intensity of the music through his economic and unpretentious, bu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Bierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at powe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
In "Art," playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2012
Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, is a big man who conducts with big gestures. In the first half of "The Rite of Spring" I wasn't quite …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2012
As in the plays of Harold Pinter, Reza realizes that violence seethes underneath our words; our language betrays our better nature.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19PM[SHARE]As in the plays of Harold Pinter, Yesmina Reza's script explores how violence simmers beneath the words; our language betrays our better nature, if you listen carefully enough.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2012
Certainly part of the power of Tomas Tranströmer's poetry resides in how, having established a jagged consciousness, he leaves us in between"in a world full of questions that are not easily…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Arts Fuse TV Critic Molly Jay thinks that the Golden Globes telecast was a dud, but that the group's TV awards were mainly on target.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24PM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
In a nice twist, no piece on the Concord Chamber Players program was written before 1907, and that oldest piece came from a fine composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose music has fallen some…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2012
"Red" is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Red" is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at the center is Mark Rothko's confrontation with fame and the commoditization of creativity in the contemporary art wo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Green Mountain Project's performance was music making at its best, historically informed, musically revealing, and sensitively and energetically performed -- one could not ask for more.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2012
While many critics decried 2011 as a musical wasteland, New England residents can allow auld acquaintance to be forgot in 2012 with the cornucopia of music that's coming to the Northeast. Wa…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:59PM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2012
This month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:55PM[SHARE]The extraordinary intensity the ensemble achieved at soft dynamic levels and their very natural sense of the movement's pacing were both quite impressive.
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