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The One I Didn’t Hear - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The right time for spouting about Schubert’s last piano music would have been last Sunday, when Jonathan Biss played the last in his series of three concerts at the Gardner Museum, each featuring one of Schubert’s final sonatas. But I wasn’t there to hear it, because it had been “super-sold-out” by
Rationalizing Loeffler’s Rat’s Nest - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
It all began innocently enough, but detoured into a rabbit hole. When COVID started pinching off live performances, clarinetist, writer, composer, and occasional TED Talker Graeme Steele Johnson sought to pick up work writing program notes for some of the few ensembles who had not lowered their shut
Remembering Brian Jones - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
On Saturday Trinity Church will host a memorial service for its illustrious former music director at 10:00 AM (preludes at 9:30); this promises to be a beautiful and deeply moving celebration of the life of Brian Jones, featuring choral music pre-selected by him, sung by the present Trinity Choir, T
A Final Flourish with Cappella Clausura - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
by Cappella Clausura Board members Lawson Daves and Martha Hatch BancroftAs Amelia LeClair’s tenure with Capella Clausura draws to a poignant close, the ensemble prepares for a grand finale this weekend: an ethereal rendition of Vespers by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani Accompanied by the celestial harmo
Behold Brahms - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Brahms hardly springs to mind when one thinks of the Handel and Haydn Society, but this distinguished Boston institution first presented Brahms’s Requiem in 1945 in a concert dedicated to the memory Franklin Delano Roosevelt, recorded it in 1963, and performed it six other times.The past year, for t
Stunning Intelligence at Symphony Hall - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s evocative and riveting ARCHORA opened Thursday night's BSO concert. After that, Mozart’s 33rd Symphony sounded, well, staidly dated. Hilary Hahn’s intelligent warmth pervaded Symphony Hall with a sagaciously bravura Brahms Violin Concerto.
Schumann's Many Loves - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Kuok-Wai Lio performed an all-Schumann concert, comprising works on composers, literature, children, and a woman in the latest Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts event on Saturday. Lio has an astounding resume. The Macau native is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, recipient of the pre
Okeghem Takes Flight - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Blue Heron is at present very likely the only ensemble in the world to have sung every piece written by the great Johannes Okeghem. Building on this unique expertise, the ensemble will offer a selection of the master’s very best in the context of music by his contemporaries & colleagues at First
A Monumental Quandary - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Handel and Haydn Society’s April 5th performance of Bach's B Minor Mass at Symphony Hall united a chorus of professional singers, mostly-excellent soloists, and a period orchestra including some distinguished virtuosi, with a well-regarded Bach specialist at the helm.
BSO Announces Subscription Season - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Today’s announcement of the BSO’s 144th season raises expectations for many scores of both new and reawakened interests, as well as accommodating desires for a goodly provisioning of comfortable warhorses. The complete calendar is HERE. Though I would always regard any of Beethoven’s symphonies as w
“What’s Going On” at Trinity - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Can you believe it? Berklee College musicians and the choir of Trinity Church, Boston, perform Motown hits, Sunday, April 7th at 5pm, free and open to all. Marvin Gaye’s groundbreaking 1971 album, What’s Going On? is full of loving outrage, asking questions—about injustice, poverty, drugs, violence
The Vocal Recital Abides - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Though last night’s intimate Vaughan Williams vocal recital began with a duet of “a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino” (Shakespeare), the lovers and the lasses of sweet spring love soon made way for ponderers on religious and the metaphysical stuffs during Boston Art Song Society’s visit to Somerville
Beethoven’s Ninth Conference at BU - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony needs no tribute on its 200th birthday, but is being honored with repeat performances everywhere, including several nearby; on May 12th Lexington Symphony will essay it in a matinee.Retired professors are often the only ones who have time to present research findings at co