Music
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Wilco Solid Sound Update
Improved Camping Amenities
By: - Apr 13th, 2011The previously announced Solid Ground tent site has been enhanced since its initial announcement. The nearby site, offered by MASS MoCA in partnership with the city of North Adams, will include a food service tent with late night hours, pay-per-use showers and simple recreational gear for kids (basketballs, etc.) plus porta-potties and drinking water.
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Capriccio at the Metropolitan Opera
Renee Fleming Enchants
By: - Apr 12th, 2011The HD broadcast of Capriccio will be screened nationwide on April 23rd. It is a delightful production of a Strauss opera and should not be missed.
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Levine Returns at Carnegie and Met
Maestro Masterful and More....
By: - Apr 11th, 2011Not only were the Maestro's great interpretative powers on display, but also a hopeful sense that he is now coping with whatever disability he has and will continue to conduct into the indefinite future. Evgeny Kissin, the brilliant Russian-born pianist, was backed up by the Levine in a great afternoon of music.
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Trouble at New York City Opera
2011-2012 Season Suspended
By: - Apr 08th, 2011The New York City Opera is a wonderful institution, providing an opportunity to mount worthy operas others won't or can't and introducing new talent of the highest order. But it can't fill a large house and perhaps needs a smaller home. Whatever the outcome, the Opera's survival is worth the effort.
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Metropolitan Opera HD April 9
Le Comte Ory as Good as it Gets
By: - Apr 07th, 2011Three great acting singers, Joyce Di Donato, Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Flores provide the most elevated operatic singing in a story as silly and fun as anything you've seen, including a threesome in bed singing trios.
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The Juilliard415 at Carnegie Hall
Dorothea Roschmann and David Daniels Perform Handel
By: - Apr 05th, 2011Not shy and retiring, Handel wrote that his own work was full of novelty and exquisiteness. He was right, and in the hands of these consummate performers, his music was simply delicious.
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Boston Opera Season Starts in October
Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Boston
By: - Apr 02nd, 2011Even while the current season continues through late spring, Boston’s two leading opera companies have announced their schedules for the 2011/2012 season. Opera Boston will offer three productions and Boston Lyric Opera will offer three main stage productions in addition to an off-site Opera Annex production for the third year in a row.
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The Elixir of Love at New York City Opera
Jonathan Miller's Production Enchants
By: - Mar 29th, 2011Set in the American southwest, this perhaps most popular opera of all time, gets a delightful new look. The New York City Opera has revived Jonathan Miller’s production of The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti.
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New York City Opera Presents Monodramas
Three Sopranos Pushed to Thrilling Extremes
By: - Mar 28th, 2011John Zorn, Schoenberg and Morton Feldman experimented with unusual combinations of singing and the orchestra. In its bold program, New York City Opera brings these three composers from downtown to uptown to exciting effect. Each monodrama features a wonderful soprano.
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The Lyric Opera Presents Peter Sellars' Hercules
Handel Music Drama Revamped for the 21st Century
By: - Mar 21st, 2011Director Peter Sellars speaks passionately about the state of our world and the need for compassionate reconciliation. As his Hercules unfolds, the wrenching drama reminds us of the problems we need to tend while the beautiful music moves us.
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Jon Anderson of Yes at Somerville Theatre
Rock Concert on April 23
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Yes was one of the more progressive art rock bands. Its former leader Jon Anderson has a new CD. He is touring with a stop at the Someville Theate on Saturday, April 24. He will perform solo in a Boston-area concert. On the heels of turning 66 on October 25, 2010, and the recent finish of a triumphant U.K Tour with keyboardist Rick Wakeman (a longtime YES band mate) he celebrate the release of their new album, The Living Tree.
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Boston Philharmonic Spring Concerts
Benjamin Zander Conducts with Cellist Natalia Gutman
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Benjamin Zander, Music Director and Conductor of The Boston Philharmonic, will present the orchestra’s spring concert series featuring Shostakovich: Second Cello Concerto with Special Guest cellist Natalia Gutman, and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 PM at Jordan Hall in Boston and Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 PM and Monday, May 2 at 7:00 PM at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge.
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The Ilona Kudina Jazz Quintet
Performing at Scullers April 6
By: - Mar 19th, 2011The Ilona Jazz Quintet, spans two generations and two continents featuring legendary drummer Billy Hart, trumpet titan and Berklee faculty member Greg Hopkins together with two bright lights of the younger generation of jazz players--pianist Vardan Ovsepian and bassist Akili Jamal Haynes, Kudina will perform at Scullers Jazz Club [DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA 02134] on Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 PM.
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Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
Tod Machover Production at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Mar 19th, 2011“Death and the Powers†was created during the past few years and is experiencing its American premiere this week in Boston. (It was premiered in Monaco and will be presented in Chicago in April.) It is a high-tech work on a science fiction theme, but it also features a couple of lyrical arias and a love story.
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Andris Nelsons Debuts with the Boston Symphony
Carnegie Hall Enhances Mahler's Ninth
By: - Mar 18th, 2011A much anticipated courtship dance began flawlessly in New York last night. Young conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed together for the first time. What this all means, no one knows. But one of the feelings described by Mahler in his music is that hope springs eternal.
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Meeting Conductor Andris Nelsons
Is Rising Star on BSO's Short List
By: - Mar 17th, 2011After a stunning performance at the New York Philharmonic a month ago, when he tackled Shostakovich to shattering effect, Andris Nelsons shot to the top of the list of every orchestra manager around the world. On March 17, he debuts with the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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Foghat at the Colonial
Band Rock's April 2
By: - Mar 17th, 2011New York rock band Foghat will take the stage of the Colonial for a one night only concert event Saturday, April 2 at 8pm .Foghat is a hard-rocking British quartet that was founded in the early 1970s and has toured relentlessly ever since. Their hard work has earned them seven Gold records, one Platinum record, one Double-Platinum record and a legion of loyal fans around the world.
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The Boston Symphony Arrives at Carnegie
Marcelo Lehninger Conducts
By: - Mar 17th, 2011Listening to the magnificent performance of the Boston Symphony with Christian Tetzlaff as violin soloist, you would never have guessed that the orchestra had recently experienced a perhaps predictable but none the less disturbing upheaval. On they went in their inimitable style, producing exciting and beautiful music.
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Boston Legends All-Star ConcertTour
Foxboro, Portsmouth, Pittsfield and Rutland
By: - Mar 14th, 2011A stellar line-up of legendary Boston rock musicians, who have played with The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, Boston, The Joe Perry Project and other notable acts, have joined together to play an All-Star concert at four dates around New England.
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The Collegiate Chorale at Central Synagogue
A Moving Tribute to Songs of the Concentration Camps
By: - Mar 13th, 2011The Collegiate Chorale under conductor James Bagwell sang a magnificent program of songs which buoyed occupants on the concentration camps in Europe during the Second World War. Memory was well served by this touching tribute.
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Handel's Agrippina by Boston Lyric Opera
Hilarious Decadence and Depravity in Nero's Rome
By: - Mar 13th, 2011A contemporary production of George Frideric Handel’s comic opera “Agrippina,†which premiered in Venice in 1709 and concerns the shenanigans of a young Nero and his ambitious mother, the lady of the title, is going to be a hit. And it is. Of course it helps that the music is by Handel, one of the greatest artists of any age to set words to music.
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Roger McGuinn at the Clark April 9
Byrds Founder Flies Solo in Williamstown
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Roger McGuinn, the co-founder of the legendary group The Byrds, will perform a special solo concert at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 pm. McGuinn, the founding father of folk-rock, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as the leader of The Byrds, one of the most influential bands in modern musical history.
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Lucia di Lammermoor March 19
Met Live in HD at the Clark Art Institute
By: - Mar 10th, 2011Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, comes to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 19 at 1 pm, live from the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
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James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera
His Intense Schedule is Cause for Concern
By: - Mar 08th, 2011While general manager Peter Gelb tries to keep his artists and staff calm, Maestro Levine's health, and what he will and will not be able to do, is creating daily issues at the Metropolitan Opera. But the artistic concerns extend beyond just the status of Levine.
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Joyce Di Donato Debuts at Carnegie Hall
A Mesmerizing Mezzo Captivates
By: - Mar 07th, 2011Di Donato is a favorite among opera afficiandos, While some talent does not translate well from opera house to concert hall, Di Donato is superb in both venues. But the special spell of Carnegie, captured by the Hall's reverberation of sound, made this concert particularly winning.
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