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Mozart, Puts, Fleming, and Gilfry Seduce - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Paired Mozart works— the Overture to The Abduction and the Symphony in C Major No. 36, K. 425, Linz fronted BSO's brillaint tak on Kevin Puts's The Brighness of Light at this weekend's BSO concerts. Try to get tickets for tonight.
H+H Messiah and Thoughts on Baroque Keyboards - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
For the 171st consecutive year, the Handel and Haydn Society presents Handel’s Messiah. CitySing, consisting of singers from choral ensembles throughout Greater Boston debuts this year alongside the H+H Orchestra and Chorus, high school aged singers of the H+H Youth Choruses Chamber Choir, and featu
A Brief History of Bruckner’s Fifth - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
When the Celebrity Series brings the Berlin Philharmonic to Boston Wednesday, the sound of the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” will ring out through Symphony Hall. Well, sort of. For the hit song’s incessantly repeating bass line, Jack White borrowed the main theme from Anton Bruckner’s Fifth Sy
Burton Fine 1930 - 2024 - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The BSO announced to staff today that former first violist Burton Fine, who retired in December 2004 after more than 40 years with the orchestra, died at 94 in his Newton home on November 15th. A memorial service is planned for Tuesday, November 19, at 10:30 a.m. at Temple Emanuel at 385 Ward St., N
CCMS Cured Depression - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Concord Chamber Music Society found a friendly roof down the road in the Lexington Masonic Museum and Library for its second event of the season. The Sunday matinee concert journeyed from Ravel to striking examples of 21st-century Romanticism. BSO colleagues violinist Lucia Lin and cellist Chris
The Gardner Engulfed and Intoxicated - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Clad in a loose-fitting black smock of the sort pictured on Busoni (famously mentored by Mrs. Gardner), Turkish-International pianist-composer Fazil Say contained multitudes in his genre-expanding solo piano debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Georgia O'Keeffe's First Memory: “The Brightness of Light…” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Georgia O’Keeffe wrote thousands of letters over the course of her lifetime, many of them to Alfred Stieglitz, the renowned photographer and art curator between 1915 and 1946. These became the textural basis and inspiration for Kevin Puts’s orchestral song cycle The Brightness of Light, which the BS
New World Chorale at 25 - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This Saturday at 3pm, Boston’s own New World Chorale will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a new local commission and a challenging program of choral favorites by Barber, Brahms, Bruckner, Haydn, and Mascagni [info HERE]. With a local history of over 100 concerts with 20 local orchestras and ense
Continuing the Russian Line - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Cherry Orchard Festival brought Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya to Symphony Hall last night. Especially in the second half, elegance, engagement, freshness of approach, and fearlessness abounded. The show reprises in Worcester's Mechanics Hall on Sunday. Tickets HERE.
Ysaÿe, Wieniawski, Kreisler...and Vengerov - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Extraordinary violinist Maxim Vengerov will be in town with pianist Polina Osetinskaya and the 1727 ex-Kreutzer Stradivarius to essay Prokofiev’s Five Melodies and his Second Sonata, the Brahms Scherzo from the F. A. E. Sonata, Franck’s Sonata, and Ravel’s Tzigane.at Boston Symphony Hall on Wednesda
Symphony Hall Sings, Swings into Duke Anniversary - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The feel was good Thursday evening, as an unchecked exuberance, brilliant brass, trombone, tenor sax, and clarinet solos caught the spirit celebrated Ellington’s trove of unbounded treasure under the pulsating baton of Thomas Wilkins with the Duke Ellington Tribute Singers, Boston Symphony Orchestra
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Menotti? - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Labyrinth, Menotti’s 50-minute blend of satire, surrealism, and moralizing received its American stage debut in Cambridge Chamber Ensemble’s clever revival at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center lats night. See it tonight or Sunday afternoon. Tickets HERE.
Riddle Me a Labyrinth by Menotti and Bury the Lede - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Most people over 50 have some recollection of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The first golden era of classical music broadcast must be thought to have begun on the radio waves in 1937 with the inauguration of the NBC Symphony Orchestra which David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America,
Lucia Lin and Sergey Schepkin Wow for Glissando - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
A sublime evening with Glissando’s founder-pianist Sergey Schepkin and violinist extraordinaire Lucia Lin took place at First Church Boston on Friday. The two have been collaborating since 1993, and it was deeply impressive and moving to hear their obvious rapport.
Tone Poem Traversal at the BSO - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Sir Antonio Pappano helmed the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thursday night in masterful traversals of tone poem works: Hannah Kendall’s North American premiere of her O flower of fire, Liszt’s lyrically strophic Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist, and in Strauss’s Also
Don’t tell Anyone about “Secret Byrd” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik will collaborate with creator Bill Barclay in a theatrical seance by candlelight, communing with some of the most ravishing music ever written, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston on October 31st to November 2nd. Co-commissioned by St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Washington
Sir Anthony Pappano and Jean-Yves Thibaudet With the BSO - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This week’s BSO subscription concerts (Hannah Kendall’s O flower of fire (American premiere), Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra) welcome back pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the British-Italian-American conductor Sir Anthony Pappano. In his previous BSO stint, Sir A
Percussion and Juggling Bond at ICA - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Sandbox Percussion and Gandini Juggling collaborated in a show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Friday night. Airborne objects and the music of Reich, Xenakis, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Andy Akiho tickled pink and raised hair as ICA’s sound and light crew heightened an amazeballs first showing. Repe