Music
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Melissa Ethridge at Tanglewood June 21
Pops Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration June 22
By: - Jan 16th, 2013Tanglewood is filling out its dance card with pop bookings. Singer-songwriter Melissa Etthridge will be featured in the Shed on June 22 with Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration the following night. Good times will be had by all.
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Newport Jazz Festival 2013
Wayne Shorter's Birthday Celebration
By: - Jan 15th, 2013One year away from celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein, Producer and Chairman of the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., announces the program for the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which will be held in Newport, RI, August 2 - 4.
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Ear Say for 2012's CDs
A Nod to
By: - Jan 13th, 2013Now anyone who can claim to have listened critically to all of the output in a 12 month period is clearly blowing hot air because if they did they would have no time for sleeping, reading or for other pursuits to which the younger and nimbler are prone.
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Jackson Browne July 4th at Tanglewood
Esperanza Spalding August 4
By: - Jan 08th, 2013American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, along with special guest Sara Watkins, returns to Tanglewood for the first time in 15 years, on Thursday, July 4, 2013, at 7 p.m. to perform in the Shed, with fireworks following the concert. Mr. Browne last performed at Tanglewood with Bonnie Raitt on August 24, 1998. He made his first Tanglewood appearance on July 31, 1973.
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Opera Orchestra of New York
Roberto Alagna as Andrea Chenier
By: - Jan 07th, 2013Concert performances of opera are a wonderful chance to concentrate on singers and the orchestra. Eve Queler, the founder of OONY, has always delivered with aplomb. She does in Andrea Chenier.
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The Good Lovelies CD
Live At The Revolution
By: - Jan 05th, 2013Live At Revolution is the best CD that The Good Lovelies have yet produced. It satisfies completely. If it does not win industry notice, nominations and awards I will be amazed.
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Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb Tests Limits
100 Million Dollar Bond Offering by The Met
By: - Jan 03rd, 2013For the first time in its history, the beleaguered Metropolitan Opera, through Morgan Stanley, offered 100 million dollars worth of bonds for sale. Moody's Investors Service noted that the Met's advantages and disadvantages are the same: a dependency on board and patron support.
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David Hayes Conducts New York Choral Society
Carnegie Hall Debut with Higdon and Berlioz
By: - Dec 20th, 2012The New York Choral Society welcomed their new Music Director David Hayes with an unusual, apt and perfectly programmed evening. Herod’s aria was sung beautifully by Richard Bernstein, who humanizes the tyrant without erasing from your memory that he murdered his wife. A play written about the same time that the oratorio was composed also made Herod more complex and real.
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Christmas Blues CDs
Delta, Piedmont and Urban Derivatives.
By: - Dec 17th, 2012Here are a few suggestions for holiday gifting to the discerning blues lover in your life, or for your own wish list.
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The Chamber Music Society Giftwraps Bach
A Joyous Celebration
By: - Dec 17th, 2012Bach packaged his six concertos called “Brandenburg†when he sent them to the Duke of Margrave, and they are often treated as one. The Chamber Music Society presents them annually as a gift to their followers. And it is always a treat. No holiday wrapping is needed. In the warm, golden wood that hugs Alice Tully Hall, the performers are illuminated on the stage, where they weave their magic.
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One Step Closer to Carnegie Hall
Rising Artists Perform Chamber Music
By: - Dec 12th, 2012A wonderful clarinetist, Joseph Rosen, performs with a small chamber group every month or so during the season in New York. In addition to being a delightful musician himself, he invites guests on the cusp of their musical careers to join in. While you still have to practice, practice, practice to get to Carnegie, these days practice not enough. Winning competitions and getting good reviews help, but in the end it's a mix of all of the above and luck. To help find a nitch, trial runs in salons like Rosen's are an indispensable aid to young artists.
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Ravi Shankar at 92
While My Sitar Gently Weeps
By: - Dec 12th, 2012Ravi Shankar, the master of Indian sitar, reached a vast audience during the psychedelic era of the 1960s. His ragas proved to be the ultimate trip or head music for those exploring inner space. In reality his music, rooted in tradition, had nothing to do with drugs. But he used his popularity to leverage the message of world music particularly through an alliance with the Beatle, George Harrison. Eventually, he became reconciled with an estranged daughter, Grammy winner, Nora Jones.
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Solarference - Lips of Clay
One Possible Face of Future Folk Music
By: - Dec 09th, 2012Our contemporary pop music will be traditional music in the future. Lips of Clay by Solarference may well be one of the paving stones leading to even more startling forms.
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Inon Barnatan, Great Pianist, at Kaufmann Hall
The Premier Pianist of His Generation
By: - Dec 07th, 2012Inon Barnatan stands out among his contemporaries as a master of music. He takes imaginative leaps into music as it should be. No divo dramas to arrest the eye. He effortlessly makes you sit up to hear familiar music as though it were being introduced for the first time. He serves music first and foremost.
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The Collegiate Chorale Presents Bellini
Tanglewood's Own Jamie Barton Stars
By: - Dec 06th, 2012The melodies are glorious, but this performance of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda featured the chorus, a character in the opera, and a magnificent performance by the Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie.
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The New York Philharmonic for Very Young People
Ears Wide Open, Mouths Zipped
By: - Dec 03rd, 2012Classical music takes exposure and if it is to continue to thrive in this country, children have to start listening early. The New York Philharmonic serves up a perfect introduction.
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Rita Coolidge at the Clark
Heart Warming Holiday Concert
By: - Dec 01st, 2012Last night at the Clark Art Institute in ever sense there were chestnuts roasting on the fire as Rita Coolidge, backed by the Williamstown Gospel Choir, delivered a heart warming program of Christmas music. Between songs she chatted intimately with the audience sharing insights to her Cherokee heritage, comments about her one and only ex husband, Kris Kristofferson, and life on the road. The set of carols was peppered with top forty hits gleaned from two Grammy awards and a life on the road that started on tour with Delaney and Bonnie in the early 1970s.
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Wilco Tickets on Sale
Solid Sound Festival Returns This Summer
By: - Nov 30th, 2012OMG, OMG. Hurry hurry hurry. Wilco Tickets are on sale to Mass MoCA members starting today. The "early bird" three day passes at a bargain $99 will go quick as a blink. But once they're gone there will be a discounted $124 for the passes which after this window of opportunity will cost $149. So be the first kind on your block to score passes to this sure to be awesome event.
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Two Time Grammy Winner Rita Coolidge
Delta Lady on Surviving Mad Dogs and Englishmen
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Tennessee, as a kid, Rita Collidge listed to R&B broadcast by WLAC out of Gallatin.Hearing Little Richard for the first time she was shaking all over. After Florida State and a year in Memphis she drove to California with Leon Russell in his Thunderbird. She recorded with Delaney and Bonnie before heading out solo which she has been doing ever since. There was a stint as a duo with Kris Kristofferson the father of her daughter. Then the epic tour of Mad Dogs and Englishmen with Joe Cocker who remains a close friend. Through it all she remained level headed while true to her faith and values.
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Rita Coolidge Discusses Her Cherokee Heritage
Part One of a Dialogue with the Renowned Singer
By: - Nov 28th, 2012Prior to a Christmas gig at the Clark Art Institute on Friday, November 30 we spoke at length by phone from her home north of San Diego. Now a grandmother of three by a daughter with former husband, Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson, we delved deeply into her Cherokee heritage. That led to rewarding collaborations exploring Native music with Robbie Robertson. This is part one of a dialogue.
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Tanglewood 2013
Five Pops But No James Taylor
By: - Nov 27th, 2012Because three Pops concerts last summer drew audiences of 10,000 each the number is upped with two more this coming season. The kickoff on June 23 will feature comic and banjo player Steve Martin. On the all important and yet to be fully announced July 4th weekend Keith Lockahrt will conduct Pops with guest artist, the Country singer, Vince Gill. Michael Feinstein and Audra MacDonald are also penciled in for Pops as well as the perennial John Williams Film Night and the epic Tanglewood on Parade.
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Monteverdi's Orfeo at Boston Early Music Festival
Timeless Moral: Don't Look Back
By: - Nov 26th, 2012Aaron Sheehan in the role of a lifetime as Orfeo, in the oldest work in the opera repertory. Boston Early Music Festival cast shines with youthful commitment. Although Orfeo was his first opera, Monteverdi had an innate sense of drama. He chose a simply dramatic story to set, and his music in its variety of form and mood, added to the drama.
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Massenet's Werther at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Matthew Polenzani Wows in Title Role
By: - Nov 24th, 2012Debussy wrote in his obituary of Massenet that he was the most beloved of musicians, but his colleagues never forgave him his power to please. He painted in pastel colors and whispered melodies in works composed. In this mounting at the Lyric, Werther's suave melodies, the intimacy of his characters, and the elegance of the music were realized in a fresh, apt and highly entertaining production.
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Joyce DiDonato Captivates Carnegie Hall
Il Complesso Barocco Accompanies Our Premier Mezzo
By: - Nov 20th, 2012Joyce DiDonato returned to Carnegie Hall to perform scenes and arias of Drama Queens from Cleopatra to Poppea. Sweeping onstage in smashing power red silk, her bustle suggesting an important avoir du pois. DiDonato, like current pop star Beyonce, appears to have attended every detail of her performance.She then focuses on her songs on stage. She is both imposing in her talent and her demeanor.Warm, inviting the $10 student rush attendees in the rafters to enjoy.
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Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage
Conrad Susa's Transformations
By: - Nov 18th, 2012Two midcentury operas played on Boston stages with mixed results. Tippett's early opera brought down by his ponderous text. The text-centered Susa/Sexton collaboration downplays the terror at the heart of her poetry.
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