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Consone Translates as Harmonious - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The UK-based Consone String Quartet impressed with strong technical and interpretive chops. The foursome’s classically-set-up, gut-stringed instruments delivered satisfying sonorities in the 1809 Gore place Oval Room during the group’s US debut.
Medieval Songs of Rule and Misrule - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Satirical works from medieval France, Provençe, and Germany provide a sharply etched and astonishingly contemporary perspective on our own nation’s current travails. The October 25th concert at the Cambridge Friends’ Meeting House concert will include songs of the great Provençal troubadour and sati
Konstantin Lifchitz Returns After 23 Years - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
News of the distinguished and original pianist Konstantin’s Lifschitz’s appearance on October 19th at First Church in Boston [Tickets HERE] has awakened nostalgic impressions for this writer. The Ukranian-born Russiam-Swiss citizen is inked to offer: Mendelssohn: 7 Songs Wthout Words, Bach’s Partita
BSO Chamber Players Reflect on the Past - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke headlined the concert at Jordan Hall stage on October 5th, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players bridged Americans influenced by European ideals with their contemporary continental counterparts like Saint-Saens and Mahler circa 1900.
Revealing Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Secret - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Kendall Square Orchestra, Boston’s Symphony of Innovation, opens its 2025/26 season on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM in Sanders Theater, with "The Wild and the Tame." Under the direction of David and Janet McCue Music Director Kristo Kondakçi, the orchestra performs Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyum
Jealousy, Madness, Treachery, and Romance From H+H - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This weekend’s hugely enjoyable production of Saul represented a most welcome return of H+H to this oratorio which they last performed in 2016. The singers, choir, and orchestra made a strong case not only for this drama-packed tale and its music, but also for attending H+H concerts,
Organist James McVinnie to Reveal “Patterns” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The organ at Symphony Hall has been a source of waxing and waning pride and purpose from the Hall’s opening weeks in 1900 to the current moment. As part of the ongoing Symphony Hall 125 celebrations, UK- and LA-based organist James McVinnie has crafted a program with selections from the inaugural se
Verdian Sound and Fury to Animate the Colonial Theater - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Giuseppe Verdi’s fast-moving and dramatic take (1847, rev. 1865) on Shakespear’s Macbeth will …”blaze with fate’s cruel grip” in Boston Lyric Opera production under the direction of Steve Maler (Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) and the baton of David Angus (BLO Music D
small and BIG - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This review from last summer’s Festival of Contemporary Music just arrived in my inbox. The Carol Reich Memorial Concert, was introduced by the 2025 curator of the Festival, Gabriela Ortiz, who explained that it was devoted to music reflecting migration and exile. The first and last pieces on the pr
Concert to Commemorate Korean Independence - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Korean Cultural Society of Boston and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Boston will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Korean independence after 35 years of Japanese colonial rule on Friday October 3rd at 7:30pm in Jordan Hall. HaeSun Paik, the New York Classical Players, and fo
Rediscoveries and an Unusual Organ - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Horizon Ensemble’s concert at Church of the Covenant, Boston next Saturday at 3:00 will transition an interesting pipe organ from its ecclesiastical garments into an elegant concert livery which one can imagine as harmonious with the Tiffany decoration in the gorgeous church. More on the space and t
The Junction Trio Plays John Zorn at Calderwood Hall - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Gardner Museum is thrilled to present the firebrand Junction Trio in a concert of music written for them by John Zorn. All of the works on the concert are Boston premieres; two are world premieres. In the ideal acoustics of Calderwood Hall, Sunday’s concert will linger in the memory as a virtuos
Giving Appropriate Voice to the Silent Nosferatu - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Attending a movie about bubonic rats and vampires certainly fits the Halloween moment, but Murnau’s Symphony of Horror is much more than a horror movie. It rather offers some of the most penetrating and artistic depiction of madness ever seen on film. The chance to witness it with Arpeggione Ensembl
Christoph von Dohnányi: 1929 –2025 - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The titan of the podium, who led the BSO at Symphony Hall 83 times and conducted 27 performances at Tanglewood, died on September 6th at the age of 95. Highlights of his career include leading the Cleveland Orchestra for almost 30 years (taking over a dozen international tours), several controversia
Do We Own Our Memories? - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Onion, a new opera from the pens of composer/librettist Eric Sawyer and director/librettist, Ron Bashford, posits a family in which secrets collide with a memory-enhancing AI. Through contact with their younger selves, its characters re- surface experiences that have shaped their lives: a sexist
Season-Closer Podium Note - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Boston Landmarks Orchestra season finale—which we proudly present on the Esplanade tonight in partnership with the Esplanade Association—constitutes a musical love letter to nature. Each of its three works draws on natural imagery, unfolding through stories rooted in the natural world. And as a
Verdi’s Macbeth at Salzburg Festival - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The sound and fury of Verdi’s Macbeth stampeded across perhaps the widest opera house stage in the world (328 feet), as hundreds of singers and the Vienna Philharmonic produced torrents of glorious tones, while your far-flung publisher struggled to parse yet another burdensome directorial conceit.
Mercury Orchestra Paints Ravel’s Pictures - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts rounded out its summer concert season last night, August 23, 2025 as Music Director Channing Yu as led the Mercury Orchestra and the winner of the Fou Ts’ong International Concerto Competition 2025 Kevin Ahfat.