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Paul Robicheau at this year's Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA: Despite several great sets featuring Jason Isbell and Iris DeMent, Wilco stole its own show at Solid Sound with conceptual aplomb.
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With the Shudder premiere of "The Devil’s Bath," writes Peg Aloi, the team of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala have crafted a masterfully chilling — and nuanced — historical folk horror story. artsfuse.org/294793/
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This is the first US museum exhibition for German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, writes David D'Arcy, and this presentation at the Neue Galerie is one of the crucial shows to see in New York this summer. artsfuse.org/294735/
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July's Short Fuses is up -- quick takes from me, Peg Aloi, Ralph Locke, Peter Walsh, Susan Miron, and others ...
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Jonathan Blumhofer on the debut album of Decoda, the first – and, so far, only – affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, and a disc from the Avalon String Quartet Official featuring a trio of works by two mid-century Chicago-based composers, Florence Price and Leo Sowerby. artsfuse.org/294719
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Steve Provizer on the news that record companies, Universal Music Group and others, have filed lawsuits against Suno and Udio, companies selling software that uses AI to generate music. The real action, rest assured, will take place in the counting house, not the courthouse. artsfuse.org/294760/
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Jonathan Blumhofer on a Deutsche Grammophon disc of Mozart symphonies, the debut recording of the 24-year-old conductor Tarmo Peltokoski. Some solidly impressive Mozart — aside from the filler, fifteen minutes of mono-dynamic, schlocky medleys. artsfuse.org/294703
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It really bums Nicole Veneto out to tell us that MaXXXine, the much awaited final film in the “X” trilogy, is an underwhelming ending to an otherwise interesting nu-slasher series. artsfuse.org/294675
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Jonathan Blumhofer review two discs: Jamaican-American musician Jordan Bak celebrates music for the viola and a reconstruction of Charles Martin Loeffler’s abandoned Octet.
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The music on David Murray’s "Francesca" album is both antic and intense, writes Michael Ullman. It’s played by a responsive and inventive quartet who sound like they are having considerable fun entertaining themselves.
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Vincent Czyz takes Dan Sinykin's "Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature" (Columbia University Press) to task. On closer inspection, Sinykin’s notion of a “conglomerate author” is largely a fiction. artsfuse.org/294601/
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A bewildered Ed Symkus writes that "Kinds of Kindness," the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos, is a confusing mishmash of forced weirdness. artsfuse.org/294566/
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Tom Hull on bassist William Parker's 2024 LIfetime Achievement Award from the Vision Festival. Parker is in the front rank of bassists because he can generate a huge and complex cascade of sound that leaders from Cecil Taylor and Ivo Perelman to Zoh Amba have treasured.
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Ralph Locke on the splendid debut recording of Louise Bertin's "Fausto." (Palazzetto Bru Zane) Much praised by Berlioz and others, this Italian opera (composed for the great mezzo María Malibran) brings a notable female composer out of the shadows. artsfuse.org/294489
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For Charles Giuliano, given that none of French Neoclassical artist Guillaume Guillon-Lethière’s history is familiar, absorbing this scholarly exhibition at The Clark, which is accompanied by extensive labels and wall texts, is demanding. artsfuse.org/294394/
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This week’s poem in The Arts Fuse: Fred Merchant’s “saw whet”
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Gerald Peary on the Provincetown Film Society & Festival. Along with a number of show biz celebrity documentaries, he saw his favorite film of the year: an indie feature called "We Strangers." artsfuse.org/294412/fi
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Peter Keough on "Flipside" (at the Brattle Theatre, June 28 through July 1). A profound piece of director Chris Wilcha’s life was being disrespected and threatened with extinction. He had to do something. He had to make a compelling documentary about it. artsfuse.org/294449/
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Debra Cash previews this year's Yidstock, the Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 11 through 14). The four-day event is an array of concerts, workshops, talks, and a special film screening at the book center’s complex at the edge of the Hampshire College campus. artsfuse.org/294429/
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The Spring Appeal continues. Please support the magazine and its commitment to the arts -- our journalism plays an increasingly crucial role in the cultural ecosystem.
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Bill Littlefield on "F*CK The Army" (NYU Press). The revolving cast members of the FTA road show (which included Jane Fonda and the late Donald Sutherland) were determined to reinforce the belief among members of the military that the Vietnam War was criminally insane.
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Scott McLennan on Robyn Hitchcock's "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books).This unconventional memoir suggests that music can do more than just change ideas or beliefs — it can transform minds, overhaul brains. artsfuse.org/294373/
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Tim Jackson is enthusiastic about the film "Janet Planet." As usual, director/writer Annie Baker is more interested in how viewers gather information, gleaned from bits of dialogue, than in wrapping up a neat plot or delivering a message.
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Neil Giordano reviews "Gasoline Rainbow" and "Happy Campers": two films about the glories of summer that are infused with bittersweet reminders of the reality of social class in America. artsfuse.org/294332/
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According to Tara Yazdan Panah, what Lana Del Rey lost in time at Fenway Park -- due to weather conditions -- she tried to make up for with the slew of guests she brought on stage.
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Paulina Subia reviews Chris Stein's "Under a Rock: A Memoir" (St. Martin's Press). Part of what makes this remembrance of Blondie and punk past special is its open-eyed fascination with New York City. artsfuse.org/294034/
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Debra Cash on the Arlekin Players Theatre's staging of "The Dybbuk": the show may not convince you of the supernatural, but director Igor Golyak is a magician.
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Fight the flood of nonsense. Support the Art Fuse's Spring Appeal! Jacques Barzun explains why. “Nothing… is more important to the life of art in a secular society than tending and developing its critical vocabulary…"
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Aaron Keebaugh writes that recordings don’t capture the Naughton sisters' symbiotic flair — the pair's recent performance at Rockport Music revealed them not only to be a superb piano duo, but a significant cut above. artsfuse.org/294177/
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David Greenham on the Central Square Theater and Front Porch Arts Collective's winning staging of the award winning musical "Next to Normal." The show succeeds, at least in part, because it dares to shine a light on parts of our lives that we don’t like to talk about.
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Peter Keough finds much to like in "Ghostlight," a movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
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David D'Arcy on a pair of standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: the feature "Bikechess" and the documentary "Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger".
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Ralph Locke on a Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) disc featuring the world premiere recording, via Odyssey Opera, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) of Tobias Picker's opera "Awakenings."
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Tim Jackson on a quartet of films at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival: they shared the theme of face-to-face communication, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of non-electronic assisted meetings, encounters unmediated by screens and phones. artsfuse.org/294157/
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Peg Aloi posts a list of the films she's most loved watching the late #DonaldSutherland in over the years.
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Ed Symkus thinks The Bikeriders is terrific: the film's script eschews any sort of straightforward plot and that is all to the good: this is a look at a lifestyle — that of a group of motorcycle aficionados in the mid-’60s who form a riding club. artsfuse.org/294103/film-...
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Few online publications are dedicated to doing what we do: providing independent cultural coverage, critical writing that articulates art's value to society through advocacy, news, and debate. Please sustain The Fuse via a donation to magazine's Spring Appeal. artsfuse.org/spring-2024-appeal/
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David Daniel on "Waikīkī Dreams": California beach culture didn’t spring full blown from the ocean riding a longboard, but the closest to a founding figure is the legendary native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku.
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This week’s poem: Laurence O'Dwyer’s “Aurora at Kvalvika”
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Michael Ullman on "September Night," which features a 2004 live performance by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet. (ECM Records). What's remarkable here is the way trumpeter Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges with the other members of the group. artsfuse.org/293954/
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Blake Maddux talks to Yes's Jon Anderson about recording a new album, and touring with, The Band Geeks. The renowned singer and the group will visit Boston's Shubert Theatre on June 25. artsfuse.org/293977
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David D'Arcy filed this dispatch from the Tribeca Film Festival: the lineup was predictably celebrity-heavy and substance-light. Yet, between the cracks, there were movies well worth seeing, such as the docs "Made in Ethiopia," "Hacking Hate," and "Sabbath Queen." artsfuse.org/293893/film-...
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Aaron Keebaugh caught Third Coast Percussion at Rockport Music and was exhilarated: it been nearly 20 years, but the group has managed to retain its uncanny freshness and vitality. artsfuse.org/293912/conce...
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Brooks Geiken reviews a trio of Latin-themed jazz albums (from Oscar Hernández, Argentina Durán, and Jesus Molina) that range from the best of the year to an uneven debut effort.
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Martin B Copenhaver on the world premiere production of "Gatsby" at the American Repertory Theater: The musical's creators are inventive, but not enough to justify the enormous amount of energy and talent that was expended in this disappointing staging. artsfuse.org/293836
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Peter Keough's Doc Talk at the Nantucket Film Festival. The documentaries "War Game" and "Devo" take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.
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