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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.
Young Pianist Breathtaking - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Sunny Lin Kai Zhang, a 20-year-old undergraduate at The Juilliard School featured an unusual mix of composers and pieces, juxtaposing radically different musical styles, with the majority making extraordinary technical demands on Thursday night at Williams Hall, New England Conservatory.
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.
Musical Pairs at the Seigla Festival - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The innovative Seigla Festival blasted through mid-August with several unusual operatic and vocal chamber music offerings in the Norðulos (Northern Lights) Hall of Reykjavík’s Harpa concert complex. This review documents the first, and most diverse, of the five vocal programs presented last week.
Classical Past & Present Joined at Tanglewood - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
After Samy Rachid led the BSO Chamber Players in a splendid performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale in Ozawa Hall, Dima Slobodeniouk conducted the BSO in Caroline Shaw’s enigmatic Entr’acte, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and a remarkable renditio
Music Scholarship in Iceland - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Early music, performing arts groups, and new forms of online access to musical manuscripts are thriving in Iceland, with the recent expansion of several departments and strong support for the arts from the national government. For 2025, Iceland’s national Performing Arts Council allocated $1 million
Podium Note: - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
In addition to tonight's Hatch Shell performance of “Beethoven & Revolution,” we are thrilled to offer performances on Thursday and Friday evenings in two area churches, and, during the day on Friday, at a community services venue in collaboration with Shelter Music. From the beginning, providin
Another Instance of Debussy’s Absolute Pitch - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
It was the memory of a small but exquisite bit of theater.Right now is very likely the 110th anniversary of the composition of Debussy’s Twelve Etudes for piano, one of his last works and rarely heard today. He composed them during the summer of 1915, when he was desperately ill with the cancer that
A Dazzling Journey Through Lyricism and Virtuosity - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Sophia Liu took the Williams Hall NEC stage Friday for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts summer series with a piano recital that spanned ballet, romantic poetry, and virtuosic showpieces, She delivered brilliantly, both technically brilliant and emotionally.
Celebrating BOF Milestone - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Berkshire Opera Festival’s festive concert of opera arias and ensembles in the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on Thursday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the company, giving the audience a chance to appreciate the singers who will be taking part this week in Verdi’s La Tra
Dateline Iceland - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
From our far-flung correspondent: The innovative Seigla Festival opened Friday, August 8th in Reykjavík’s glittering Harpa, featuring an American-born star of the Royal Academy of Music playing an experimental, breathtaking program for contemporary flute.THE LOCATIONHarpa is an acoustic and architec
Der Ring des Brattelungen - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
From August 18th through August 24th, the Boro of the Brattles will be hosting what Tundi Productions bills as the only Ring Cycle in North America this summer. Imagine a post-industrial Glyndbourne as you dine with the stars during the long dinner intermissions; in this case, instead of green lawns
Verdi in Great Barrington - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
In recognition of the tenth anniversary of the vibrant Berkshire Opera Festival, Brian Garman, Berkshire Opera Festival's William E. Briggs Artistic Director and Co-Founder (and conductor), talks about the company’s success, origins, surviving the pandemic, future dreams, and more. According to BMI
Pan-American Percussion: a Stunning Tanglewood Showcase - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Navigating the Pan-American history of percussion music, Friday’s Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music concert exposed the deep international roots of this musical tradition. Through her smart programming, composer Gabriela Ortiz painted a nuanced picture of musical heritage.
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts: Summer Edition - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
For the fifth time, the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts returns with a vibrant summer concert series at New England Conservatory’s Williams Hall and Jordan Hall, running from August 7th to August 23rd [complete calendar HERE]. These performances have become a welcome fixture for Boston’s musi
Emotional Polyphony - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Irving Fine Memorial Concert on Saturday night brought together three venerables― Emanuel Ax, John Williams, and Tanglewood―for the world premiere of John Williams’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Andris Nelsons conducting the BSO in their smart summer whites.
Lacrymosa at the Great Barrington Public Theater - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa¸ received its world premiere mounting on June 12th at the Great Barrington Public Theater, in an imaginative production in the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Bard College, Simon’s Rock.
America Becomes a Cultural Powerhouse in Newburyport - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
America came into its own in the last century, changing from an artistic backwater to a cultural superpower. Newburyport Chamber Music Festival 2025 features a diverse range of 20th-century American classical voices, from popularly inclined composers like Aaron Copland to abstract works by the likes
Cello Quartet Gives World Premiere in Newport - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The Galvin Cello Quartet performs with virtuosity, flair, and romantic passion. Their sound is highly cultivated and unabashedly lush and warm, their purpose best stated by their newest member James Baik: “Let the music go wherever your heart takes it.”