Music
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Joshua Roman Performs at The Crypt
Cellist Beams Us Up with Mystery and Spirituality
By: - May 04th, 2017Joshua Roman approaches his cello as a friend and collaborator. The Crypt Sessions invite audiences to be friends and collaborative listeners and to meet and greet on the terrace of the Church of the Intercession as the sun sets. Over delicious foods by Ward 8 and wine selected by Magnum Opus, you find out why your fellow Crypt listeners have come.
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Marriage of Figaro at Boston Lyric Opera
Young Cast Delivers
By: - May 06th, 2017As the final opera in its 40th anniversary season, the BLO ended on an exuberant note. The Mozart classic was transposed from the 18th century Vienna suburbs to a villa in 1950s Italy, allowing a range of chic retro fashions to take stage center. But the young singers, all in fine voice, did not let the costumes upstage them. This might not have been a profound "Figaro," but it was fun, which might be just what Mozart and da Ponte wanted.
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Met Opera Ends Season with a Bang
Alagna Sings Cyrano
By: - May 11th, 2017Opera is a form of many pieces. When the set, production, singing and orchestra work together, opera makes its own case. Cyrano de Bergerac realizes the seemingly Sisyphean task beautifully.
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On Site Opera Presents Mozart
The Secret Garden
By: - May 13th, 2017On Site Opera is committed to producing in a place that echoes the theme or setting of an opera. The enchanting West Side Community Garden provided the set for an early Mozart opera. The cast was superb, picking tulips, dashing through flowerbeds, all for the seeming purpose of finding love. Where better to look and listen than a garden?
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Lady Bird and Fireworks at Hunter Opera
21st Century Musical Takes
By: - May 13th, 2017Lady Bird Johnson is now known for her signature role in the beatification of America, but as her husband prepared for his 1964 Presidential campaign, in which he crushed Barry Goldwater, he enlisted the aid of his wife, a Southerner, in wooing voters in the South. Vernacular music enhances the Lady Bird opera and also Fireworks by Kitty Brazelton, in which we see our present through the eyes of the future.
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E.T Enchants at New York Philharmonic
Spielberg Classic Set to Music
By: - May 16th, 2017Delighting fans of all ages a packed New York Philharmonic conducted the music of John Williams during a screening of the Stephen Spielberg film "E.T." A screening of the belived film accompanied by the Boston Pops will be presented at Tanglewood this summer.
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Philip Glass at the Miller Theater
Pop up Concert Features Michael Riesman
By: - May 16th, 2017Michael Riesman and Ensemble Signal celebrate Philip Glass as you drink wine on the stage of the Miller Theater and enjoy music up close and personal. Glass' ritualistic beats and his emerging structures were hypnotic.
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Anton Rubinstein's The Demon
Esotreric Opera Exhumed by Boston's Russian Emigres
By: - May 22nd, 2017Anton Rubinstein was a powerful cultural figure in 19th century St. Petersburg, but his music, especially his operas, have fallen out of the repertory. Commonwealth Lyric Theater, which specializes in underrepresented Russian and Slavic opera has brought Rubinstein's masterpiece, the opera fantastique, "The Demon" to Boston audiences.
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Rock Star Gregg Allman
Band in Boston
By: - May 28th, 2017With their 1969 debut album the Allman Brothers, based in Macon, Georgia, launched the unique genre of Southern rock. On tour they were an immediate hit as an opening act at the Boston Tea Party. They were invited back for a later gig. The band opted to hang out rather than travel to home and back. They melded into the then emerging Boston music scene. Legendary lead guitarist, Duane Allman, died at 24 in I971. Now Gregg, the lead vocalist and keyboard player, has passed at 69 following several years of failing health.
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Kevin Puts Opera Preview at The Crypt
Daniela Mack and Joseph Gaines Sing An Invitation
By: - Jun 01st, 2017A preview of the Crypt Session was live streamed a 3pm on the afternoon of the concert, and immediately got 100,000 hits. Not only is the venue and the food and wine delicious in the series mounted by Unison Media, but tickets are hot as Hades.
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Boston Early Music Festival June 11-18
Festival Theme is Carnival After Campra
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017Campra's "Le Carnaval de Venise" sets the theme, but the weeklong festival ranges far and wide, from Mexico to Germany to Rome, Florence as well as Venice. Pergolesi's "La serva padrona"will feature local favorite Amanda Forsythe, and the BEMF orchestra will play Handel's "La Resurrezione." Something for everyone - everyone who loves early music that is.
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Glory Denied on an Aircraft Carrier
Opera Upper West Presents Tom Cipullo's Opera
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017We are on the Hudson River on an aircraft carrier that was used in VIetnam. This is the setting of Tom CIpullo's wrenchingly beautiful opera, Glory Denied, which is performed below deck in the old bunk area by Opera Upper West. The setting almost matches the intensity of this opera.
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The Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Esa Pekka Salonen Conducts
By: - Jun 04th, 2017The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra is perhaps the best orchestra now playing in New York. Because they have listened to singers for so long, they have a built in lyricism which it tops with superb musicianship. Under the baton of Esa Pekka Salonen and enhanced by the acoustics of Carnegie Hall, the orchestra made a big impact with Schumann and Mahler.
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Alan Gilbert's Valedictory Das Rheingold
Maestro Exits Over the Raindow
By: - Jun 07th, 2017The evening belonged to Mr. Gilbert, whose taut command of this orchestra over such a long and contiguous work reminded New Yorkers that his departure at the end of this season will be a terrible loss indeed.
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Gregg Kallor and the Attacca Quartet
Sheen Center Offers a Classical Music Series
By: - Jun 06th, 2017In the heart of Noho, the Sheen Center has become a hot venue for new music performed by consummate artists. Gregg Kallor premiered a Quintet honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Met Orchestra Concludes Carnegie Hall Season
How Many Ways Can You Make Songs
By: - Jun 08th, 2017It must be fun for the talented Met Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen to stretch its opera boundaries. From an early Mahler piece, once integrated into the First Symphony, to support of the dazzling Christian Tetzlaff and the quiet lullabies for children sung by Anna Sofie von Otter, the orchestra sang.
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Alan Gilbert Exits in a Blaze of Glory
Departs New York Philharmonic
By: - Jun 11th, 2017When it comes to the exit of Alan Gilbert from the post of Music Director after only eight years, the New York Philharmonic has put on its bravest face. This week’s season-ending series of concerts, (promoted as “A Concert for Unity”) have featured starry opening acts for America’s oldest orchestra.
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Friday Night Concert Series
Music in Bennington
By: - Jun 14th, 2017The Bennington Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Summer Sonatina International Piano Camp, will be offering a diverse and exciting five-week Friday night concert series from June 23rd to July 21.
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The Four Voices at Tanglewood
Joan Baez Headlines Women Singers
By: - Jun 16th, 2017The end of a ten city tour is the great stage at Tanglewood. On June 17th, this tour of women's voices fills the air for the last night of their tour on the beautiful grounds in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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Angels in America Opera
Composer Péter Eötvös Creates a Work for the Ages
By: - Jun 15th, 2017Composer Péter Eötvös took a monumental American work, Angels in America, and abstracted its spirit as an opera for the ages. Hallucinatory and death-directed, the opera version mixes spoken and played note language to convey both the anguish and rage of the victims of AIDS.
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LoftOpera at the Muse in Brooklyn
Pergolesi's Beloved Stabat Mater
By: - Jun 18th, 2017LoftOpera is committed to bringing opera to new, young audiences in welcoming performances which can be greeted with joy by both the artists and the audience. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, one of the world's most beloved musical settings of a 13th century Christian poem, was actualized in a Brooklyn warehouse. The audience was moved and entranced.
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A Night with Janis Joplin
On Stage in San Francisco
By: - Jun 18th, 2017The spirit of the boozing and boisterous rocker is vibrantly on stage at American Conservatory Theatre in An Evening with Janis Joplin. In an incarnation by Kacee Clanton the blues rock belter from Port Arthur, Texas is back where it all started during the flower power hippie era of sweet and wild San Francisco. The touring company of the Broadway musical is playing to packed houses.
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Alan Gilbert Leads Concerts in the Parks
Exits in Fireworks
By: - Jun 19th, 2017Alan Gilbert gave his final New York concerts as music director of the New York Philharmonic this week, leading the annual Concerts in the Parks series in four boroughs. Wednesday's concert on the Great Lawn of Central Park was blessed with magnificent weather: clear skies and 80 degrees. Perfect.
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The Four Voices At Tanglewood
Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls
By: - Jun 21st, 2017Joan Baez led the Four Voices to a packed house at their final concert tour stop at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. The four women serenaded the audience for two plus hours on a beautiful spring evening.
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Million Dollar Quartet at BTG
A Fantastic Night of Epic Rock 'n' Roll
By: - Jun 21st, 2017Million Dollar Quartet is based on a true story of a rare event - the coming together in one studio of four rock 'n' roll legends: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Set on December 4, 1956, at Sun Records in Memphis, It was a night to remember for all rock n' roll fans!
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