Music
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Christine Lavin at Natick Center for the Arts
Combining Standards and New Material
By: - Sep 20th, 2010The laughter was constant as Christine once again paraded her misadventures, inner dramas and unique perspectives in verse and song before us. Enthusiastic applause greeted her at The Natick Center for the Arts as she walked on stage. From start to finish, the audience was in synch with Christine’s numbers, mostly chestnuts with a few new topical offerings.
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The Met Opera HDs at Lincoln Center
Third Season of Live in HD
By: - Sep 20th, 2010To celebrate the new Metropolitan Opera season, the Met broadcast free for anyone who could get a seat, 10 performances from season's past. They were some enchanted evenings under the stars and in front of the opera house. The HDs have become an important part of the Met's program to generate new audience. The new season will start soon at The Clark in Williamstown., Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, and the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington.
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Emily Dickinson in Words & Song
Cantilena Chamber Choir Oct. 10
By: - Sep 13th, 2010The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a concert, “Emily Dickinson in Words & Song" on Sunday, Oct. 10, at 5 p.m. The performance at Trinity Church will feature music by Aaron Copland: “Emily Dickinson Songs†and Eliot Carter: “Musicians Wrestle Everywhere,†“Heart Not So Heavy. Also on the program is Samuel Barber’s "Let Down the Bars O Death," and Alice Parker’s Emily Dickinson songs and music by Libby Larsen.
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Pops Tickets on Sale
Holiday Schedule Now Available
By: - Sep 10th, 2010Tickets will go on sale for the Boston Pops Holiday Series on Monday, September 13. Continuing one of Boston’s most beloved traditions, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops open the 2010 series on Wednesday, December 8, and the 37 concert series will run until Sunday, December 26. Holiday Pops tickets, ranging in price from $27-$125, depending on date and time, will go on sale at 8 a.m. on Monday, September 13, online at bostonpops.org.
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Basie Band Swings at Tanglewood
Eddie Daniels and Bob James in Broadway Boogie
By: - Sep 06th, 2010Day two of the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival. A change in the weather brought out a great crowd on the lawn for the afternoon concert. It headlined the Count Basie Orchestra with Eddie Daniels and Bob James featuring their Broadway Boogie. This closes the season in Lenox.
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Kurt Elling at Tanglewood
Headlining Annual Labor Day Jazz Festival
By: - Sep 05th, 2010Grammy winner, and arguably the greatest jazz singer on the planet, Kurt Elling headlined the Saturday evening performance of the two day, Labor Day weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival. There were sets by emerging artists, Brandon Wright and Kelley Johnson during dining sets in the Jazz Cafe. The packed Ozawa Hall enjoyed the afternoon live broadcast by John Pizzarelli and his clan.
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Crosby Stills and Nash at Tanglewood
The Dinosaurs Tour
By: - Sep 02nd, 2010When not collecting social security, or hanging out at the senior center shooting pool Crosby, Stills and Nash are out on tour. They brought their dino rock to Tanglwood last night to a sedate, not sedated, audience. Nice way to end a summer in the Shed.
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The Center For the Arts in Natick
September Schedule
By: - Sep 01st, 2010Concerts begin with Boston favorite Catie Curtis, Christine Lavin, Larry Carlton, and The Matt Haimovitz Trio
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Met Live in HD at the Clark
Also at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington
By: - Aug 30th, 2010In addition to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Great Barrington, the enormously popular Met Live in HD series of broadcasts has now been expanded to the Northern Berkshire Audience. The series, which is sure to sell out, as it has at the Mahaiwe for the past two seasons, will start on October 9 with Wagner's Das Rheingold.
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Garrick Ohlsson Delivers Pitch-Perfect Performance
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Kurt Masur Conducts Final BSO Tanglewood Concert
Beethnoven's Ninth Always Delievers
By: - Aug 30th, 2010There's nothing like listening to Beethoven's Ninth at Tanglewood. Kurt Masur ended BSO season at Tanglewood. Indeed an Ode to Joy.
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Ute Lemper Last Tango in Berlin
Multivalent Global Cabaret at the Colonial
By: - Aug 28th, 2010The remarkable singer, cabaret artist, actress, and painter, Ute Lemper, utterly captivated the audience last night at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It was a rich and diverse global excursion as she performed in five languages; English, her native German, Spanish, French and even Yiddish. The material spanned Brecht/ Weil and Jacques Brel to lyrics by the beat poet Charles Bukowski. Out there.
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2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Annual Event September 4 and 5
By: - Aug 24th, 2010As the summer season of 2010 winds down it is time yet again to swing in the Wood. The a nnual Tanglewood Jazz Festival returns to Lenox for he last hurrah of summer on September 4 and 5. Get a groove on before heading back to school and work.
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Dawn Upshaw at Tanglewood
A Little Night Music? Thanks but No Thanks
By: - Aug 21st, 2010Dawn Upshaw did her best, but still couldn't save the schmaltzy sherdherdesses. Descriptions of people engaging in such bucolic activities populate the “Songs of the Auvergne,†a selection of songs written by Joseph Canteloube and performed Friday night by Dawn Upshaw and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
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Callithumpian Consort at ICA/Boston
The Sinking of the Titanic
By: - Aug 21st, 2010ICA/Boston Callithumpian Consort performs British composer Gavin Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic. Audiences become passengers in a metaphor for our Post Crash Era.
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Wilco Wraps Solid Sound Festival
Will Return Next Year
By: - Aug 16th, 2010The total attendance for the weekend long Wilco Solid Sound Festival was about 10,000. But with weekend passes it is not clear just how many tickets were sold. Probably about half that figure. On an artistic level it was a great success. There was a nice mellow energy. With more advance planning and involvement from North Adams administration, merchants, vendors, artists and citizens it will surely be back bigger and better next year.
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John Williams Salutes Steven Spielberg
Film Night at Tanglewood
By: - Aug 15th, 2010The silver haired and silken tongued Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies was the host for the enormously popular John Williams Film night. The Tanglewood program entailed a tribute to collaborations with Steven Spielberg.
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Contemporary Music at Tanglewood
A Hotbed of Cutting Edge Music
By: - Aug 15th, 2010There is nothing hard-to-take about the music presented over five days im Osawa Hall at Tanglewood. Under the direction of Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen and John Harbison, 20th century composers sing and soar.
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Wilco Update
Groovin at Mass MoCA
By: - Aug 15th, 2010Up to 5,000 attended the Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA on Saturday. The day ended with a two hour plus Wilco performance on Joe's Field. The three day event winds down this afternoon with an acoustic set by Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy.
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Wilco Rocks Mass MoCA
Weekend Long Solid Sound Festival
By: - Aug 14th, 2010Two and half years of planning went into the three day Solid Sound Festival that brought the rock band Wilco to Mass MoCA. If all goes well the museum director Joe Thompson hopes for their return. The experimental Festival will be a template for future events on a large scale. It got off to a great start on a glorious summer night in the Berkshires.
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Herbie Hancock at Tanglewood
Imagine the Jazz Master at 70
By: - Aug 10th, 2010Grammy winner of album of the year Herbie Hancock brought his Imagine tour to Tanglewood. The recent Imagine album took two years to record on location in seven countries with all stars representing eleven nations.
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Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood
Yo Yo Ma’s World Music Project
By: - Aug 09th, 2010Yo Yo Ma formed the Silk Road Ensemble in 1998. The performance last night at Tanglewood was quite different from what we experienced several years ago. There is more of an emphasis on commissioned works and arrangement's of traditional music some going back thousands of years. It was the exotic high point of a rich and diverse Tanglewood season.
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Richard Goode at Tanglewood
A Gem Delivered on a Perfect Summer Night
By: - Aug 07th, 2010On Friday night, pianist Richard Goode, with the assistance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave the audience at Tanglewood a pitch-perfect performance of Mozart’s jewel-like Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-Flat, K-449. The piece for full orchestra sounds more like a chamber music work, probably because of Mozart’s precise, minute-like composition.
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Tanglewood On Parade
Tribute to 30th Season of John Williams
By: - Aug 05th, 2010It was a glorious summer evening for Tanglewood on Parade. The popular annual concert featured a tribute to the music of John Williams. This is his 30th season. Some special friends joined him on stage including Keith Lockhart, Stafan Asbury, Julian Kuerti, Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor. It ended with a big bang of 1812 Overture followed by fireworks.
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Yo Yo Ma Silences the Wind
Cello Virtuoso Left Tanglewood Crowd Speechless
By: - Aug 03rd, 2010Few cellists â€" or musicians of any kind for that matter â€" have the power to entrance an audience, leave them speechless by playing just a few notes. Yo Yo Ma reminded the massive crowd attending Sunday afternoon’s performance at Tanglewood why he remains one of those gifted, magical musicians.
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