One Response to “Handel & Haydn Society serves up a delightful and sparkling “Marriage of Figaro”” Posted Nov 22, 2022 at 8:50 am by Richaard B. Beams Greetings – Thanks for your fine and thorough ...

Tis the season for musical marathons, at least in New England. A little more than a week after the Boston Symphony Orchestra wrapped its survey of the complete Beethoven symphonies, the Celebrity ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

The former, in fact, was splendidly vital. Graceful and flowing, the movement unfolded as a true instrumental song, the fresh handiwork of a twenty-something composer with the world seemingly at his ...

Likewise, Sifare went from being Mitridate’s son to becoming his daughter. This change isn’t so great a stretch as it sounds: both sons’ roles were originally written for castrati and a certain ...

If the two immediate standing ovations on Thursday evening were any indication, sometimes the only response to a performance is “Again!” Such was the case at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s ...

“Thunder is good,” Mark Twain wrote. “Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work.” A couple lightning bolts struck at Symphony Hall Friday night in the form of the Handel & Haydn ...

Since its founding in the late 90s, the Calder String Quartet has developed a sterling reputation for its wide-ranging programming and championing of contemporary music. Friday night at Jordan Hall, ...

There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

One Response to “Nelsons closes BSO’s Beethoven symphony cycle with glimpse of Promised Land” Posted Feb 07, 2025 at 2:43 pm by John L. Hodge This is a letter that I sent to the Boston Globe, which ...

1. Music by Korngold, Mozart and Andrew Norman. Kirill Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The Berlin Philharmonic’s visits to Boston haven’t once, in this century at least, disappointed.

There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too. On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study ...