Fierce and Tender Schubert

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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]

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A Guerilla Impromptu

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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]

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Harp Trio Debuts

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

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Incandescent Dialogues with the Piano

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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]

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Resourceful Alchemy from Catalysts

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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]

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Ensemble Altera Dazzles

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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]

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The BSO’s Unique Sound

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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]

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