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“In such a fiercely capitalist society,” writes Eichler, “critics can strive, in partnership with readers, to help make the gift legible, make it tangible, make it real, understood, and felt. . . . They can explore not only how we listen — but why.”
over 1 year ago
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A surprisingly personal new film appraises an iconic score in a time of war.
over 1 year ago
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A season of orchestral concerts, grand opera, new music, and chamber festivals.
over 1 year ago
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Portland’s Palaver Strings is remaking classical music.
over 1 year ago
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On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, Andris Nelsons led the orchestra in a recent work by Anna Thorvaldsdottir alongside music of Mozart and Brahms.
over 1 year ago
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On Thursday night as part of a Music for the Senses festival, Andris Nelsons led works inspired by Mark Rothko and by an early-20th-century vision of color matched with sound.
over 1 year ago
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Mr. Sherman was a pianist of arresting insight, majestic technique, and transfiguring grace.
about 2 years ago
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Mr. Heiss was on the faculty for 54 years at NEC, where his classes “were a joyous illumination of music.”
over 2 years ago
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concerts were interspersed with presentations from the Tanglewood Music Center’s Festival of Contemporary Music.
over 2 years ago
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This weekend in the Berkshires, the BSO reprised established classics of American music, and Aston Magna celebrated its first 50 years.
over 2 years ago
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This summer Aston Magna will celebrate a half-century of historically informed performances.
over 2 years ago
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The Rockport Chamber Music Festival opened its 42nd annual season with a sold-out weekend of concerts at the Shalin Liu Performance Center.
over 2 years ago
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The festival’s new production of Henry Desmarest’s ‘Circé,’ with a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, opened on Sunday afternoon at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.
over 2 years ago
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The orchestra has chosen Chad Smith, a well-regarded leader, as its next president. What changes might he bring to Boston?
over 2 years ago
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The Chameleon Arts Ensemble concluded its anniversary season with a freshly conceived and delivered program at First Church.
over 2 years ago
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Boston Early Music Festival returns to live performance, celebrating women
over 2 years ago
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Some were shocked when the LA Metro police piloted a program of broadcasting loud classical music to disperse unhoused people. But it’s only the latest attempt in a sad, Kafkaesque history of weaponizing the art form.
over 2 years ago
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At a fraught contemporary moment, the BSO performed Shostakovich’s “Babi Yar” on Thursday night in Symphony Hall, concluding its traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.
over 2 years ago
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A conversation with Israeli writer David Grossman and Boston-based composer Osvaldo Golijov about the creation of a “tone poem in voices.”
over 2 years ago
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The Russian pianist thrilled a packed audience in his first solo Celebrity Series recital since 2014.
over 2 years ago
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On Thursday night in Symphony Hall, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joined the ensemble for the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s “Air,” and soprano Golda Schultz made her BSO debut.
over 2 years ago