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Bach Birthday Bash - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Boston’s annual celebration of all things Bach returns to First Lutheran Church of Boston on Saturday, March 22, 2025. For the seventeenth year, the annual Boston Bach Birthday will draw hundreds in celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contributions to music. Held on the Saturday nearest Bac
Honoring Two Gabriels - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Over the last couple of decades, Chair of the New England Conservatory piano department Bruce Brubaker has organized multi-day tributes to the piano works of several composers. Some highlights include 2008 Messiaen, 2009 Haydn (every piano sonata), 2010 Chopin, 2011 Liszt, 2012 John Cage, 2015 Scria
Singers Honor Wilkinson in March Recital - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Two acclaimed young vocalists, soprano Emma Robertson and mezzo-soprano Grace Heldridge, will take the stage on March 15 for a one-night-only recital celebrating the strength, passion, and richness of the female experience. Presented by the Wilkinson Young Singers Fund (WYSF), the event will spotlig
Steadfast Glissando’s Affirming Flame - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Friday’s concert featured Sergey Schepkin and friends, subtle embrace of inclusion and, as always, a high-level booklet of helpful program notes walking us through the structures of the programmed works after inviting us with a blue and yellow flag to “Stand with Ukraine!”
Haydn and Stravinsky Done to Perfection - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Guest Conductor Alan Gilbert led spirited interpretations of Haydn Symphonies (Nos. 48 in C Major, “Maria Theresa,” and 99 in E-flat Major) at Symphony Hall last night, and we've never witnessed a more skillful and exciting performance of the-difficult-to-put-across Stravinsky Violin Concerto than I
A New Opera on Power, Politics, and Religion - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, a groundbreaking new opera by James Kallembach, explores one of the most consequential moments in early American history. The semi-staged concert performance in Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre on March 1st will combined forces of the Harvard-Radclif
"Rum and Rebellion" - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
AGAVE, an early music group based in San Francisco, brought its innovative HIP approach to First Church Cambridge in the company of frequent collaborator countertenor Reginald Mobley; the show’s testaments to 18th-century inequities continue to teach lessons to us.
Phil Kline: ghost story and an Interview - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
In a February 23rd concert that also features the Gardner debuts of the rising young soprano Nicoletta Berry and the “fearless” piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, Calderwood Hall at the Gardner Museum will be hosting the world premiere of a piece it commissioned: Composer/lyricist Phil Kline’s gh
Argento Opera Takes Surreal Journey into the Human Psyche - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
In a return to its historic performance venue on February 21st , 22nd, and 23rd, Lowell House Opera (LHO) will be staging Dominick Argento’s Postcard from Morocco for its 79th season [Tickets HERE]. As New England's longest continually running professional opera company, LHO has long been at the int
Odyssey Opera Mounts Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata or the Nude Goddess appeared Saturday night at Jordan Hall in a superbly done semi-staged version with costumes, lighting, and a fair amount of blocking in Jordan Hall. Gil Rose Led Odyssey Opera in a show also touted a as preparation for a commercial recording of the work.
BSO, Blomstedt Bring Brahmsian Balm - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Hie thee hence to Symphony Hall for either or both of Herbert Blomstedt’s two remaining sovereign accounts of Schubert 6 and Brahms 1. As Brahms’s final massive chords rang out at evening’s end last night, everyone there knew that they had witnessed a special and life-fulfilling moment.
A Choral Emissary Visits Boston - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Among US church musicians in the Anglican / Episcopal traditions, England’s Barry Rose, OBE, has long been associated with outstanding choirs, passionate singing, and rather broader tastes in repertoire than what’s heard in the typical English Cathedral. After storied positions from 1960 to 1997 (Gu
Operatic and Cinematic Dialectics: Korngold’s Die tote Stadt - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Symphony Hall erupted with music that could be felt Thursday night as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s collaborated with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Lyric Opera Chorus, and the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School in the BSO premiere of Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt
Tanglewood 2025 Announced - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This summer’s Tanglewood experience promises the usual complement of warhorses that are always welcome (Beethoven’s symphonies, La mer, The Planets) and a batch that ought to be retired for years if not decades (The Moldau, 1812 Overture, Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, etc.), but warhorses are
BSO To Revive the Dead City - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Erich Wolfgang von Korngold’s masterpiece opera Die tote Stadt, op. 12 (1920) is on the slate for the BSO on Thursday and Saturday with an all-star cast led by soprano Christine Goerke, as Marietta. The other names appear below*. Andris Nelsons will be presiding over the concert version with members
Revivals and Romantic Mainstays - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The singular Claremont Trio filled the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum’s Calderwood Hall on Sunday with a dynamic program of Sohy, Clarke, and Schumann to begin the Winter/Spring Weekend Concert series.Coloristic piano textures washed over the hall for the duration of Charlotte Sohy’s newly revived
Woo-Hoo for Jamie Barton and Friends - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Before she sang a note yesterday, she had won over the audience at Jordan Hall with her welcoming smile, and soon enough, with the warmth and expressiveness of her voice. Jamie Barton appeared in the company of violist Matthew Lipman and pianist Tamar Sonikidze for the Celebrity Series.