Music
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Boston Opera Season Starts in October
Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Boston
By: - Apr 02nd, 2011Even while the current season continues through late spring, Boston’s two leading opera companies have announced their schedules for the 2011/2012 season. Opera Boston will offer three productions and Boston Lyric Opera will offer three main stage productions in addition to an off-site Opera Annex production for the third year in a row.
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The Elixir of Love at New York City Opera
Jonathan Miller's Production Enchants
By: - Mar 29th, 2011Set in the American southwest, this perhaps most popular opera of all time, gets a delightful new look. The New York City Opera has revived Jonathan Miller’s production of The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti.
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New York City Opera Presents Monodramas
Three Sopranos Pushed to Thrilling Extremes
By: - Mar 28th, 2011John Zorn, Schoenberg and Morton Feldman experimented with unusual combinations of singing and the orchestra. In its bold program, New York City Opera brings these three composers from downtown to uptown to exciting effect. Each monodrama features a wonderful soprano.
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The Lyric Opera Presents Peter Sellars' Hercules
Handel Music Drama Revamped for the 21st Century
By: - Mar 21st, 2011Director Peter Sellars speaks passionately about the state of our world and the need for compassionate reconciliation. As his Hercules unfolds, the wrenching drama reminds us of the problems we need to tend while the beautiful music moves us.
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Jon Anderson of Yes at Somerville Theatre
Rock Concert on April 23
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Yes was one of the more progressive art rock bands. Its former leader Jon Anderson has a new CD. He is touring with a stop at the Someville Theate on Saturday, April 24. He will perform solo in a Boston-area concert. On the heels of turning 66 on October 25, 2010, and the recent finish of a triumphant U.K Tour with keyboardist Rick Wakeman (a longtime YES band mate) he celebrate the release of their new album, The Living Tree.
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Boston Philharmonic Spring Concerts
Benjamin Zander Conducts with Cellist Natalia Gutman
By: - Mar 20th, 2011Benjamin Zander, Music Director and Conductor of The Boston Philharmonic, will present the orchestra’s spring concert series featuring Shostakovich: Second Cello Concerto with Special Guest cellist Natalia Gutman, and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, April 30 at 8:00 PM at Jordan Hall in Boston and Sunday, May 1 at 3:00 PM and Monday, May 2 at 7:00 PM at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge.
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The Ilona Kudina Jazz Quintet
Performing at Scullers April 6
By: - Mar 19th, 2011The Ilona Jazz Quintet, spans two generations and two continents featuring legendary drummer Billy Hart, trumpet titan and Berklee faculty member Greg Hopkins together with two bright lights of the younger generation of jazz players--pianist Vardan Ovsepian and bassist Akili Jamal Haynes, Kudina will perform at Scullers Jazz Club [DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA 02134] on Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 PM.
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Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
Tod Machover Production at Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Mar 19th, 2011“Death and the Powers†was created during the past few years and is experiencing its American premiere this week in Boston. (It was premiered in Monaco and will be presented in Chicago in April.) It is a high-tech work on a science fiction theme, but it also features a couple of lyrical arias and a love story.
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Andris Nelsons Debuts with the Boston Symphony
Carnegie Hall Enhances Mahler's Ninth
By: - Mar 18th, 2011A much anticipated courtship dance began flawlessly in New York last night. Young conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed together for the first time. What this all means, no one knows. But one of the feelings described by Mahler in his music is that hope springs eternal.
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Foghat at the Colonial
Band Rock's April 2
By: - Mar 17th, 2011New York rock band Foghat will take the stage of the Colonial for a one night only concert event Saturday, April 2 at 8pm .Foghat is a hard-rocking British quartet that was founded in the early 1970s and has toured relentlessly ever since. Their hard work has earned them seven Gold records, one Platinum record, one Double-Platinum record and a legion of loyal fans around the world.
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The Boston Symphony Arrives at Carnegie
Marcelo Lehninger Conducts
By: - Mar 17th, 2011Listening to the magnificent performance of the Boston Symphony with Christian Tetzlaff as violin soloist, you would never have guessed that the orchestra had recently experienced a perhaps predictable but none the less disturbing upheaval. On they went in their inimitable style, producing exciting and beautiful music.
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Meeting Conductor Andris Nelsons
Is Rising Star on BSO's Short List
By: - Mar 17th, 2011After a stunning performance at the New York Philharmonic a month ago, when he tackled Shostakovich to shattering effect, Andris Nelsons shot to the top of the list of every orchestra manager around the world. On March 17, he debuts with the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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Boston Legends All-Star ConcertTour
Foxboro, Portsmouth, Pittsfield and Rutland
By: - Mar 14th, 2011A stellar line-up of legendary Boston rock musicians, who have played with The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, Boston, The Joe Perry Project and other notable acts, have joined together to play an All-Star concert at four dates around New England.
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The Collegiate Chorale at Central Synagogue
A Moving Tribute to Songs of the Concentration Camps
By: - Mar 13th, 2011The Collegiate Chorale under conductor James Bagwell sang a magnificent program of songs which buoyed occupants on the concentration camps in Europe during the Second World War. Memory was well served by this touching tribute.
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Handel's Agrippina by Boston Lyric Opera
Hilarious Decadence and Depravity in Nero's Rome
By: - Mar 13th, 2011A contemporary production of George Frideric Handel’s comic opera “Agrippina,†which premiered in Venice in 1709 and concerns the shenanigans of a young Nero and his ambitious mother, the lady of the title, is going to be a hit. And it is. Of course it helps that the music is by Handel, one of the greatest artists of any age to set words to music.
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Roger McGuinn at the Clark April 9
Byrds Founder Flies Solo in Williamstown
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Roger McGuinn, the co-founder of the legendary group The Byrds, will perform a special solo concert at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 pm. McGuinn, the founding father of folk-rock, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as the leader of The Byrds, one of the most influential bands in modern musical history.
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Lucia di Lammermoor March 19
Met Live in HD at the Clark Art Institute
By: - Mar 10th, 2011Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, comes to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 19 at 1 pm, live from the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
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James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera
His Intense Schedule is Cause for Concern
By: - Mar 08th, 2011While general manager Peter Gelb tries to keep his artists and staff calm, Maestro Levine's health, and what he will and will not be able to do, is creating daily issues at the Metropolitan Opera. But the artistic concerns extend beyond just the status of Levine.
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Joyce Di Donato Debuts at Carnegie Hall
A Mesmerizing Mezzo Captivates
By: - Mar 07th, 2011Di Donato is a favorite among opera afficiandos, While some talent does not translate well from opera house to concert hall, Di Donato is superb in both venues. But the special spell of Carnegie, captured by the Hall's reverberation of sound, made this concert particularly winning.
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Opera Orchestra of New York Presents Meyerbeer
Eve Queler Triumphs
By: - Mar 04th, 2011Eve Queler's last performance with her Opera Orchestra was a brilliant performance of L"africaine, an underappreciated Giacomo Meyerbeer opera with libretto by the incomparable Eugene Scribe. She started with Richard Tucker in the role of Vasco de Gama, and ended with Marcello Giordani. An epic opera for an epic moment in her career.
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Hindemith' s Cardillac at Opera Boston
Rarely Staged and Now We Know Why
By: - Mar 03rd, 2011From the superb orchestral playing and the passionate conducting of Opera Boston’s music director Gil Rose to the committed singing of the entire cast - but especially Sanford Sylvan, for whom the production was mounted - to the well-conceived and well-executed stage direction, one could not have hoped for a better production of a tough modern opera.
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Jansen and Barnatan Perform at Poisson Rouge
New York's Hot Venue for Music New, Newer and Old
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Le Poisson Rouge on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village packs an audience in nightly for intimate performances of all kinds of music. On Monday, Janine Jansen and Inon Barnatan performed their magical dialogue.
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James Levine to Leave BSO September 1
Status of Tanglewood Commitment Unclear
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Because of a number of health related issues, absences, recoveries and setbacks the tenure of James Levine as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will end on September 1. He assumed the position in 2004. Levine serves in a similar role at the Metropolitan Opera where no statement on his status has been released. Having cancelled the remainder of the BSO season it remains to be seen whether he will be able to resume his duties at Tanglewood for the coming season.
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Maestro Levine Steps Down in Boston
Five Years of Health Issues Forces a Change
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011No one wants to see the Maestro go, but in fairness to the Boston Symphony, artists, and the audience, the time had come for a change.
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Wilco Announces Solid Sound Festival Lineup
Levon Helm's Band Among Highlights
By: - Mar 01st, 2011In what promises to be one of the most diverse lineups on this year’s festival circuit, the Chicago rock band Wilco, who headline Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25, will be joined by iconic American singer Levon Helm and his band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, soul singer Syl Johnson, jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas, alternative country twosome The Handsome Family and more.
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