Music
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Completes 12th Season with Five World Premieres
Lisa Bielawa's final appearance as Composer-in-Residence premieres her In medias res
By: - May 17th, 2009Final concert of 12th season, Boston Modern Orchestra Project present Five World Premieres. Lisa Bielawa's final appearance as Composer-In-Residence premieres In medias res.
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Mahler's 7th Symphony at Carnegie Hall
The State Orchestra of Berlin Conducted by Daniel Barenboim
By: - May 15th, 2009At Carnegie Hall in New York, the State Orchestra of Berlin under Daniel Barenboim performed Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony and the Wayfarer songs, with Thomas Hampson. This was part of the larger series in which all the Mahler symphonies have been performed in order. It wasn't hard to see why this doesn't happen often as the work requires at least 80 musicians.
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Boston Pops With Guest Artists Maya Beiser and John Pizzarelli
Keith Lockhart Conducts During 124th Season
By: - May 13th, 2009For the 124th season of the Boston Pops Keith Lockhart performed with guest artists, Maya Beiser, on cello, and the jazz quartet of John Pizzaerlli. While Pizarelli is a frequent peformer with the Pops this was the debut appearance for Beiser whom Lockhart described as the "Queen of Post Modern Cello."
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Tanglewood Special Offers
More Ways to Enjoy Music in the Berkshires
By: - May 04th, 2009The BSO and Tanglewood are making you an offer you cannot refuse. The season long Grass Pass offers admission to most events. The 45/45 combines two lawn tickets with two tickets to the Clark Art Institute. There are also hotel/ back stage and ticket offers. Check it out.
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Pianist Nicki Denner Brings Latin Beat to Mass MoCA
Salsa Dance Party on May 1
By: - Apr 22nd, 2009The Latin jazz pianist Nicki Denner will perform at the Hunter Center of Mass MoCA on Friday, May 1. With the easing of travel restrictions for Americans with family in Cuba this is a call for celebration with a night of music and dance.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra 2009-2010 Season
James Levine Leads 15 Programs
By: - Apr 17th, 2009The complete Beethoven Symphonies will be among the 15 programs that James Levine will lead during the 2009-2010 season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition to Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Renee Flemming performing the Four Last Songs of Strauss there will be premieres by Carter, Harbison, Leiberson and John Williams.
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John Harbison's Opera "Winter's Tale"
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Performs Premiere
By: - Mar 24th, 2009The 70th birthday of esteemed America composer John Harbison (b. 1938) was celebrated in Jordan Hall, where Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) staged the first complete performance of Harbison's first opera, Winter's Tale (1974, revised 1991). Opera is Harbison's favorite medium. He won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his cantata Flight into Egypt.
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Renee Fleming as Rusalka at the Metropolitan Opera
A Rare Peformance of Dvorak's Czech National Treasure
By: - Mar 23rd, 2009Antonin Dvorak's opera "Rusalka" premiered in Prague in 1901. It took 92 years before its first performance at the Metropolitan Opera. The diva, Renee Fleming performed the lead role in 1997 and 2004. Her recent performance as the water spirit who falls in love with a human was utterly enchanting.
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Tanglewood 2009 News Updates
Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Tony Bennett Featured
By: - Mar 20th, 2009The Boston Symphony Orchestra is going all out to make the 2009 season a boffo hit for Tanglewood. Jazz singer Tony Bennett has been added on July 21. Sheryl Crow will join James Taylor. The Clark Art Institute will join Tanglewood for a special twofer ticket promotion. This is just a sample of the exciting news.
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Tanglewood Sold Out for James Taylor Performances
Only Lawn Tickets Available for Taylor with Pops and John Williams
By: - Mar 18th, 2009For the coming season the ever popular annual appearance by Berkshire native, James Taylor, has been shifted from the Fourth of July weekend to close the season, August 27-30, and anticipate the annual Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend which falls late this year. The BSO announces that other than lawn tickets the Taylor concerts have sold out.
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Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera
Live HD Broadcast in American Movie Theatres on March 21
By: - Mar 18th, 2009On Saturday, March 21, there will be a live HD broadcast in American movie theatres of a new Metropolitan Opera production of Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 Bel Canto masterpiece "La Sonnambula." The opera stars the soprano Natalie Dessay in the demanding role of Amina and the tenor Elvino, Juan Diego Florez, who rejects her for alleged infidelity the night before their wedding.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Celebrates 70th Birthday of composer John Harbison
Premiere: the Complete Version of John Harbison's Opera "Winter's Tale"
By: - Mar 14th, 2009Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) celebrates the 70th birthday of composer John Harbison (b.1938) one of America's most prominent artistic figures. BMOP presents the first complete performance of Harbison's revised version of "Winter's Tale" his first opera, on Friday, March 20th, 8:00 PM, at Jordon Hall.
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BSO and James Levine Release First Major Recordings
Works by Ravel, Brahms, Mahler and Bolcom
By: - Feb 20th, 2009The Boston Symphony Orchestra releases its first major recordings with Music Director James Levine—Ravel's complete Daphnis and Chloé, Brahms's A German Requiem, Mahler's Symphony No. 6, William Bolcom's Eighth Symphony, and Bolcom's Lyric Concerto for flute and orchestra—available on the orchestra's own BSO Classics label through its website at bso.org.
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The Metropolitan Opera Announces 2009-2010 Season
Eight New Productions Including Four Met Premieres
By: - Feb 11th, 2009Music Director James Levine conducts a new production of Tosca on Opening Night as well as four other operas Many of the world's greatest singers are featured in new roles. Debuts include conductors Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; directors Pierre Audi, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau, Richard Eyre, and William Kentridge; designers Herzog & de Meuron, Rob Howell, Richard Peduzzi, and Miuccia Prada In its fourth season, The Met: Live in HD series will include nine live transmissions to more than 35 countries around the world
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The Enigma of Sarah Caldwell
Two Biographies Try to Unravel Her Mystery
By: - Feb 06th, 2009While she was alive Sarah Caldwell's name became a synonym for opera in Boston. She presided over a glorious period of operatic innovation, even as she ran up the bills, bounced checks and broke her word to her boards and ticket buyers alike. Two books have been written since her death in 2006, though neither help one understand what motivated her beyond a love of art. Perhaps that was all there was for her.
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Boston Pops 2009
Rites of Spring
By: - Feb 05th, 2009Barbara Cook will kick off the 2009 season of the Boston Pops on May 9. For the 15th year Keith Lockhart will conduct. Overall there is a great Pops tradition which is now 124 years old. The Pops will debut material from its new Red Sox CD. Other higlights include tributes to Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman.
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Eulogy for the Berkshire Opera Company
Will it go quietly into that good night?
By: - Jan 26th, 2009It appears that as it reaches its 25th Anniversary, there could be a funeral instead of a celebration for the Berkshire Opera Company. Its fate will be decided at a crucial board meeting in the near future.
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Claremont Trio Honors Kirchner's 90th Birthday
At Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
By: - Jan 17th, 2009Composer Leon Kirchner is honored on his 90th birthday by New York based Claremont Trio and others at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Show and Tell (and Play) with Philip Glass at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
The Great American Composer Returns to North Adams
By: - Jan 17th, 2009On the coldest night of the Berkshire winter, Philip Glass was welcomed back to the Hunter Center at Mass MoCA with the warmth and love that only a family of admirers can provide. For two hours he chatted amiably with Boston Phoenix critic Gerald Peary about the films he has scored, and entertained the audience by playing several excerpts from his work.
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Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2009
A Labor Day Tradition in the Berkshires
By: - Dec 18th, 2008In the span of the past few years the Tanglewood Jazz Festival has quickly become established as a Labor Day Weekend tradition in the Berkshires. For 2009 it will come following an extra week of programming featuring James Taylor. So the Second Line will rock and goove home titubating the last gasp of summer.
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Ozawa Conducts Queen of Spades
Tchaikovsky at the Metropolitan Opera
By: - Dec 15th, 2008For the first time since his debut in 1992 Seiji Ozawa returned to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct "The Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky. The production stars Ben Heppner as Ghermann and Maria Guleghina as Lisa. Since leaving the BSO in 2002 Ozawa has been the music director of the Vienna State Opera.
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Renee Fleming Stars in Massenet's Thais
Metropolitan Opera Live in HD on December 20
By: - Dec 13th, 2008On December 20, Renee Fleming in "Thais" by Jules Massenet will be seen on screen at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington as well at 850 theatres in 28 countries as a part of The Met: Live in HD series. We covered a recent performance at the Met in anticipation of the live broadcast one of eleven during the 2008-2009 season.
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Boston Pops to Present 32 Concerts December 11-28
Keith Lockhart to Premiere The Polar Express
By: - Nov 21st, 2008It will be Jingle Bells at Symphony Hall from December 11 through 28 as Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops in a marathon of 32 concerts including the premiere of a commissioned work The Polar Express. Bundle up and enjoy a great Boston tradition.
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Tanglewood 2009
Full Schedule Extended by a Week
By: - Nov 21st, 2008Despite a tough economy the Tanglewood Music Festival is planning a spectacular 2009 season. Although there is a dense schedule another week has been added between the official end of the BSO performnances and the annual Jazz Festival. During the interim James Taylor will be in residence from August 27-30.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra Offers $20 Tickets to Those Under 40
Special Appeal for a Younger Audience
By: - Nov 19th, 2008In a special outreach to a younger audience the Boston Symphony Orchestra has launched a new program with special ticket prices targeted at those under 40. Our report includes a full schedule of available events.
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