Music
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Ottensamer and Bax Perform at Carnegie Hall
Music as Song Delights
By: - Feb 11th, 2022Alessio Bax and Andrea Ottensamer, two consummate artists, performed together and individually in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. They both seek to help us hear the origins of music as a communicative and an expressive medium. Yet there is nothing ponderous about their approaches.
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Save on FreshGrass MoCA Tickets
All You Need Is Love and Bluegrass
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Prices for FreshGrass | North Adams increase in two weeks from $129 up to $149—on February 24 at 11:59pm—so snag your tickets now before you miss the chance to save $20 on each!
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Lynn Nottage at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with a Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LCT, each tugging for their own interests.
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World Premiere Opera in Washington
Four A List Composer/librettist Teams Contribute
By: - Feb 07th, 2022Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.
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Lynn Nottage Turns to Opera at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 06th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LTC, each tugging for their own interests.
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Close Encounters With Music
Folk and Baroque in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 04th, 2022Folk and Baroque—Performed Live at Historic Saint James Place in Downtown Great Barrington, MA, February 26, 2021 at 6 PM
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Terence Blanchard's Champion at Boston Lyric Opera
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe to Perform
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.
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New York City Opera's World Premiere
Joins with National Yiddish Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
By: - Jan 30th, 2022Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a novel and a movie, inspire Ricky Ian Gordo's new opera. A lush production at the Museum of Jewish Heritage shows us NYCO alive and well.
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Renee Fleming, Uma Thurman, Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall
Weaving Kevin Puts, Philip Glass, Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn
By: - Jan 23rd, 2022Tom Stoppard prefers rock and pop, but he contributes mightily to a musical monologue written with Andre Previn and sung and spoken by Renee Fleming and Uma Thurman with the splendid Emerson Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein.
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The Band’s Visit
Touring Company in San Francisco
By: - Jan 14th, 2022The biggest star of The Band's Visit is the music. Lyrics in the sung songs are witty and divulging, and the accompanying music is pleasant throughout, with eclectic influences from American pop to klezmer to bossanova. Some of the stylings are a little rough, which at first may suggest poor casting, but on further consideration, less than perfect renditions work well. After all, the characters represented are not singers, they are working class.
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Igor Levit at Carnegie Hall
An Invitation to Listen
By: - Jan 14th, 2022Igor Levit performed Beethoven, Fred Hersch, Wagner and Liszt in a compelling musical evening at Carnegie Hall in New York. The Hall, vaccinated and boosted, was packed for the occasion.
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Lincoln Center's Flying Over Sunset.
Musical About Early Acid Trips
By: - Jan 08th, 2022In the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, LSD (before Dr. Timothy Leary) was a trendy drug used by both psychiatrists and other to help individuals explore their past and their subconscious. Among the well-known people who experimented with the drug was actor Cary Grant, novelist Aldous Huxley and playwright/journalist/diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
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Music for Abandoned Amusement Parks
Uncanny Masterpiece by East Boston's Sal Baglio
By: - Jan 01st, 2022In an uncanny masterpiece musician Sal Baglio, in Music for Abandoned Amusement Parks, captures the ambiance of colorful East Boston. Journalist Frank Conte is the venerable chronicler of the hood.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
What Are You Doing for New Years
By: - Dec 30th, 2021This very special concert features the amazing flutist Andrea Brachfeld with Insight: Bill O’Connell, piano; Harvie S, bass; and Jason Tiemann, drums
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Inna Faliks at The Barge
Generational Response Moves Beautiful Music to the Present
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021A new work by George Meyer and commissions by Inna Falik are performed in New York. This program took place on The Barge, one of New York’s most charming venues. You rock on the boat as you watch perfumers reflected in the boat’s windows. Boats pass by outside, traveling up and down the East River. The Wall Street skyline shimmers in the background. A welcome way to end a difficult year. Live music.
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Conrad Tao at the 92nd Street Y
Melody in Sound Clouds
By: - Dec 21st, 2021Conrad Tao is a special pianist. He is a master of technique and so much more. He performs as a listener, always hearing the harmonics of a note he strikes (or even plucks). In his own compositions and in his interpretation of the work of others, he calls our attention to the richness of a tone, colored by many notes, in geometric order above the note struck.
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Pianist Inna Faliks Finds Kindred Spirits
The Schmanns, Beethoven and Ravel Explored
By: - Dec 13th, 2021Inna Faliks is a superb concert pianist, who also heads the piano studies department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her recordings are devoted to revealing kindred spirits. Husband and wife, Robert and Clara Schumann, are offered together in The Schumann Project. Their entwined influence is suggested. Her interpretations of Beethoven will be presented as part of a Barge Concert in New York on December 16.
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TON Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum
The Piano Explored
By: - Dec 10th, 2021It comes as no surprise that the oldest piano in the world, created in 1720 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An earlier instrument was recorded in the inventory of the Medici family in 1700, but the Met’s piano is the oldest to survive today. It has hammers and dampers, two keyboards, and a range of four octaves, C–c”’ The instrument was on view for concertgoers, who enjoyed a talk by Leon Botstein om the development of the instrument. He focused on Beethoven's response to more notes with a wider dynamic range, The Orchestra Now performed the Emperor Concerto, Shai Wosner at the modern Steinway and Leon Botstein conducting.
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Jeremy Denk Performs The Well Tempered Clavier
Bach is Still Full of Joy at 300
By: - Dec 06th, 2021Jeremy Denk performed “The Old Testament of Keyboard Music,” Bach’ s Well Tempered Clavier (WTC) , at the 92nd Street Y in New York. The artist selects works to which he can bring new insights. Bach, he sensed, was trapped by the Glenn Gould performances in the mid-20th century. Audiences found the neuroses Gould implanted in Bach suitable for the century’s mood. They also appreciated the humming he added to the piano notes. Other performers flatten the work to sound more like a harpsichord, sewiwgmachine style.
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Ted Rosenthal Trio at Gateways Inn in Lenox
With Guest vocalist Karrin Allyson
By: - Dec 01st, 2021The Ted Rosenthal Trio with special guest vocalist Karrin Allyson will perform their Wonderland holiday show in a one-time event this Sunday, December 5 in Lenox, Mass. Performing jazz versions of holiday favorites and more, they will be appearing at the Gateways Inn in two shows, at 5 and 7pm.
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Così Fan Tutte
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 26th, 2021“Così Fan Tutte” was the last of three collaborations by perhaps the strongest composition team in opera history. Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte had previously written “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Don Giovanni.” Acknowledging the significance of this unplanned trilogy, San Francisco Opera is presenting them all over a three-season period.
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Al Perry Was a Cool Head at WBCN
As Station Manager He Kept the Lid On
By: - Nov 23rd, 2021During the wild and crazy days of WBCN, which is now celebrated with a movie and book, Al Perry functioned as the adult in the room. As station manager he kept the lid on. Respected and loved by those who knew and worked with him Al passed on November 6.
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The Band's Visit at the Bushnell
Tony Winner in 2018
By: - Nov 19th, 2021The Band’s Visit is almost a chamber musical; limited cast, no big dance numbers, no flashy sets or projections. It tells a simple story, but one that slowly creeps up on you and, if you let it, packs an emotional wallop. It’s based on a 2007 Israeli film that won critical acclaim and success.
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The Butterfly Process
Boston Lyric Opera Fires the Canon
By: - Nov 17th, 2021Madama Butterfly inspires a deep look at its historical context through a contemporary lens. Internal and public discussions are part of the project dubbed The Butterfly Process by Boston Lyric Opera.
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Bob Dylan Archive
Opens in Tulsa on May 10, 2022,
By: - Nov 16th, 2021In revealing the existence of the Bob Dylan Archive to the public in 2016, Ben Sisario wrote in The New York Times, "It is clear that the archives are deeper and more vast than even most Dylan experts could imagine, promising untold insight into the songwriter's work." The three-story façade of the Bob Dylan Center will face downtown Tulsa's hugely popular public gathering space, Guthrie Green, and will depict a rare 1965 image of Dylan, donated to the center by renowned photographer Jerry Schatzberg.
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