Christopher Greenleaf, a veteran recording engineer and concert-series curator, commissioned a copy of a very early piano and induced Artem Belogurov to play it in the Bach Birthday Bash at First Lutheran Church in Boston. [continued]
Boston honored Bach’s 338th birthday with a glorious all-day celebration at the First Lutheran Church with sacred Baroque music, but also lectures, a German lunch, along with secular pieces; an evening Vespers closed the festivities. [continued]
The Worcester native, currently based in Finland, burst out with perfect sensitivity at Shalin Liu on Sunday afternoon for Rockport Music [continued]
Groton Hill Music Center’s astonishing facility includes an astonishing organ which titulaire organist Randy Steere introduced in Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva and Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony. Vista Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Bruce Hangen also led William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 5. [continued]
Chiaroscuro Quartet’s BEMF concert at Jordan Hall Saturday providing a riveting evening of 19th-century drama. [continued]
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra re-introduced conductor Fabio Luisi and composer Angelica Negon to Symphony Hall audiences last night. [continued]
The Boston Lyric Opera’s reduced production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle Ryan McKinny in the title role and Naomi Louisa O’Connell as Judith made for an indispensable Bluebeard on Wednesday night, but the wait for the real thing goes on. The sold-out run continues tonight, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon. [continued]
I cannot advise too strongly that attending the present cycle of BSO concerts under Thomas Adès’s direction is of such tremendous import. Please accept this brief summation of why one ought to visit Symphony Hall today and/or tomorrow. [continued]
Chineke! Orcherstra won cheers from a crowd that included a handsome titer of racial and ethnic diversity three-quarters filling Jordan Hall for the Celebrity Series. [continued]
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation in the namesake port city staged a rare treat this past weekend for its annual birthday celebrations for Johann Sebastian Bach: his music for multiple harpsichords! [continued]
A celebration on the eve of the Afghan new year, Nawroz, featured arrangements of the country’s traditional music along with original compositions in a Longy-sponsored concert at First Church Cambridge last night. [continued]
Local bars had stiff competition for patrons this past St. Patrick’s Day as the Glissando Chamber Music Series showcased works by Germanic masters alongside music by a living composer, Christopher Trapani at First Church in Boston. [continued]
Nightingale Vocal Ensemble’s proclaimed “Adrift,”to be the “first-of-its-kind choral opera.” Last weekend’s show at the Boston Center for the Arts’s black-box theater certainly expand opera’s boundaries. [continued]
In its weekend exposé in both Jamaica Plain and Cambridge A Far Cry “… met six composers…who give us a sense of home and belonging.” [continued]
Drawing on a lifelong immersion in Renaissance masques and music, poetry and folklore, Artistic Director Anne Azéma infused Henry Purcell’s most beloved masterpiece with new life, immediacy, and meaning at Pickman Hall last night. [continued]
Julia Wolfe’s Her Story and Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony could hardly seem more different, yet work together they did at Friday’s BSO concert under Giancarlo Guerrero. [continued]
The innovative and indefatigable guitarist delighted an appreciative audience at the Boston Classical Guitar Society’s concert in the First Lutheran Church of Boston this past weekend. [continued]
The players in “Our Human Condition,” Boston Artists Ensemble’s March 12th concert at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brookline, conveyed multiple moods with bravura success. [continued]
David Hoose led premieres of works by Jihyun Kim, Richard Festinger, Marti Epstein, James Primosch, Soprano Mary Mackenzie added delights. [continued]
Piano Plus emerged from its pandemic hiatus with a concert by Bard colleagues violinist Yi-We Jiang and pianist Frank Corliss at the Olive Free Library on Saturday. [continued]
Quicksilver brought “Early Moderns: The (very) First Viennese School,” to First Church in Cambridge, Congregational on Friday evening under the Boston Early Music Festival brand. [continued]
Benjamin Zander celebrated his 84th birthday in the company of 2,000 Symphony Hall votaries last night, mounting a pair of warhorses with the visceral energy inherent in the mutual admiration and stimulation raging among the hormonally charged players in the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and their particularly inspired and inspiring leader. [continued]
Thomas Wilkins brilliantly led unfamiliar works by Black composers Margaret Bonds, Anthony Davis, and William Dawson at Symphony Hall last night. The themed program repeats on Saturday. [continued]
New Music Mosaic put across eight new pieces with true dramatic and artistic commitment, boldly leaning into the multicolored moods with full intention in virtuosic performances ranging from serious to comedic at the Out of the Blue Community Arts Gallery in Somerville on the final Sunday in Februrary. [continued]
All Saint’s Church, Ashmont filled with glorious Baroque music as the dynamic conductor Andrew Sheranian guided nine singers and a small chamber ensemble through Bach’s Passion According to Saint John. [continued]