Half of San Francisco turned up last night at the War Memorial Opera House for Mason Bates’s new opera. Boston listeners can view the full electro-acoustic spectacle this Wednesday when the 100-minute production is livestreamed HERE. [continued]

Pianist Sergey Schepkin launched the sixth season of Glissando at First Church Boston last night with Schubert’s Eight Impromptus, nicely introduced by the short Allegretto in C Minor, D.915, which Schubert composed in 1827, a month after Beethoven’s death. [continued]

The twinkling intelligence and grace of Roger Tapping pervaded Jordan Hall with much love. While the sounds evaporated, memorial commissions in his honor will enrich the viola repertoire for many years. [continued]

Webs of nitre chillingly surrounded us at Nightingale Vocal Ensemble’s fascinating mashup of Poe and Gesualdo; it repeats tomorrow night at Old North Church. [continued]

With fine musicianship and precise ensemble A Far Cry’s compelling “Reimagined” opened its season last night at Jordan Hall. [continued]

Boston Lyric Opera’s well-sung and very-well-played up-to-date production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly continues at the Colonial Theater through next weekend. [continued]

Pianist Ursula Oppens joined the Cassatt String Quartet in Sunday’s concert of Tania León, Mozart and Shostakovich which closed the Maverick season. [continued]

Jay Sheib’s dense and difficult new production of Tod Machover’s 1987 VALIS interestingly blurred fantasy and reality at MIT last weekend. [continued]

Composer and sound designer Elisabet Curbelo, Urban Jazz Dance Company, poetry of Federico García Lorca, and American Sign Language (ASL) met at Mosesian Center for the Arts Sunday in “Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible,” a fairytale music-making and dance along with artistic sign language, projections, motion sensor technology, and sound engineering that went by timelessly. [continued]

The Freisinger Chamber Orchestra opened the Boston concert season with a pleasing, mostly NEC student contingent on Saturday afternoon at Old South Church. [continued]

The Ames Piano Quartet took the stage with familiar masterworks that we don’t hear often enough, and a newer example by George Tsontakis. [continued]

The renowned summer series of organ recitals at Methuen Memorial Music Hall concluded on Wednesday with Crista Miller’s accomplished program based on plainsong and hymntunes.
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With rigor, the Borromeo String Quartet brought two important and indispensable pieces to the Maverick on Sunday. [continued]

Saturday afternoon’s concert, a gift from Simone Dinnerstein and the Caroga Arts Ensemble, dazzled with works rarely head at the Maverick. [continued]

2023 Fou-Ts’ong International Competition winner, pianist Che Li, a Chinese-born recent graduate from New England Conservatory of Music, joined conductor Channing Yu and the Mercury Orchestra at Jordan Hall for the 1879 version of the Tchaikovsky’s First Piano concerto Saturday night in the stimulating final concert of the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts’s 2023 summer festival. [continued]

… but what about this poised artist who self-partnered in Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben for the Foundation of Chinese Performing Arts at Williams Hall last night? [continued]

Tundi Productions’ Walküre in Brattleboro last night at the 750-seat, zodiacally classical Latchis Theater missed nothing essential and often hit its marks. [continued]

Trio Oko’s first public performance, on August 21^st at the Scandinavian Cultural Center in Newton, revealed three accomplished individuals playing as a seamless ensemble. [continued]

Yukiko Sekino performed Debussy, Scriabin, Beethoven and Ravel in the 11th recital of the 2023 concert series for Chinese Performing Arts at Williams Hall this Monday.  The Gold Medalist of the 2006 Russian Music Piano Competition and a soloist numbers appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among her countless noteworthy achievements. Beyond creating music, one [continued]

Sunday’s guest, the Catalyst Quartet, has performed at the Maverick’s rustic “music chapel” a number of times. On this occasion cellist Gabriel Cabezas joined them for a concert that began with Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 in C Major (BWV 1009), a foolproof curtain raiser in a tangibly heartfelt performance of a gloriously [continued]

Ensemble Altera shone forth brightly from Providence, Rhode Island’s Blessed Sacrament Church Sunday afternoon. Under Christopher Lowrey, the ensemble blended effervescently in the sumptuous acoustic. [continued]

In Saturday night’s concert at the Koussevitzky Shed Leonidas Kavakos joined Nelsons in a stunning interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto followed by. Prokofiev’s massive Symphony No. 5. [continued]

After hearing Tanglewood Festival Chorus prelude concert underlining committed humanism last night, we enjoyed works on a vaster canvas in the shed celebrating both brotherhood and art for art’s sake. [continued]

The broadly repertoired, and competition-honed pianist Han Chen made last night’s selections at Williams Hall feel like inevitable concertmates. [continued]

Ensemble132 with featured pianist Sahun Sam Hong essayed Beethoven and Stravinsky at NEC’s Williams Hall last night in the eighth concert of the 2023 Chinese Performing Arts Summer Festival. [continued]