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Who Could Ask For Anything More? classical-scene.com/2023/06/…

Who Could Ask For Anything More? - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

The Boston Pops outdid itself Wednesday evening with the new blockbuster duo of singer/pianist Michael Feinstein and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

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Explicating Boston GuitarFest XVIII classical-scene.com/2023/06/…

Explicating Boston GuitarFest XVIII - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

We live in “interesting” times. Fundamental “truths” we once held to be “self-evident” are now under attack from all sides while a pitiless, monster of our own invention called “AI” looms over us,...

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New post: Piano Plus and Friends classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Piano Plus and Friends - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Joan Tower made the trek across the river to hear composer and pianist John Halle in the Piano Plus Series.

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New post: Musical Chairs on Mother’s Day classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Musical Chairs on Mother's Day - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

The Boston Chamber Music Society began its Mother’s Day concert at Jordan Hall with the Mozart Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478. Works by Guillaume Connesson, Tison Street and Dohnanyi completed the...

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New post: Schubertiade for Aston Magna classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Schubertiade for Aston Magna - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

The Aston Magna Festival and Foundation will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this  summer. In the meantime, a special Schubertiade celebrating the 30th anniversary of Daniel Stepner’s ascension...

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New post: Her | alive.un.dead classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Her | alive.un.dead - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Emily Koh’s show premiered this past weekend at the Pao Arts Center in Guerilla Opera’s  powerful production. The story of three generations of women in a family came across through  excellent...

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New post: Musica Sacra: Double Takes classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Musica Sacra: Double Takes - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Musica Sacra’s “One Text, Two Perspectives,” which paired composers who have essayed identical text, offered First Church Cambridge’s Saturday audience the beautiful sounds of 21 auditioned singers...

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New post: Sarasa Covers with Cello Quartet classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Sarasa Covers with Cello Quartet - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble’s “Take Four! Music for Cello Quartet” featured cellists of different persuasions curiously melding in covers from Josquin des Prez to Dave Brubeck. Jake Charkey.

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New post: A Gift from NEP: Shostakovich’s Leningrad classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

A Gift from NEP: Shostakovich’s Leningrad - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

New England Philharmonic under music director Tianhui Ng rose to their challenges Sunday at the Tsai Performance Center. Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony served as the third work in a demanding...

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New post: Back Bay Chorale Strikes Fire with Exodus classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Back Bay Chorale Strikes Fire with Exodus - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Ninety-voices strong, with an orchestra of 34, the Back Bay Chorale projected powerfully, courageously, accurately,  conveying deep engagement, achieving tremendous victories over Handel’s challenges...

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New post: Music Born in Turmoil classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Music Born in Turmoil - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Coro Allegro observed the centenary of Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) and 30 years of the artistic directorship of David Hodgkins Sunday at Sanders Theater. As is its wont, Coro mixed contemporary music...

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New post: Pulitzer Winner Omar Looks Towards Opera’s Future classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Pulitzer Winner Omar Looks Towards Opera’s Future - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Boston Lyric Opera’s production of the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar triumphed in a sold-out run at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater from May 4th-7th.  Co-composers Rhiannon Giddens and...

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New post: Be She Alive or Be She Dead classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Be She Alive or Be She Dead - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Emily Koh’s HER | alive.un.dead will run from May 12th to May 14th in Guerilla  Opera’s world premiere production at Pao Arts Center. The concert-length media opera concerns itself with three...

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New post: Appealing Balancing Act in Ashmont classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Appealing Balancing Act in Ashmont - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

Violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Evren Ozel soothed and challenged the sold-out Peabody Hall at All Saints Church, bringing off Sunday’s concert with great elan.

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New post: Menahem Pressler, 1923-2023 classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Menahem Pressler, 1923-2023 - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

It saddened me to read about the death two days ago of Menahem Pressler, founding pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio. With such illustrious partners as Isidore Cohen, violin; and Bernard Greenhouse,...

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New post: Two Four-Stringed Instruments: So Very Different classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Two Four-Stringed Instruments: So Very Different - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

“String of Soul” immersed us in a sonic journey as it combined the warm assertiveness of Hsin-Yun Huang’s viola with the otherworldly and timeless sonorities of Wu Man’s pipa in Saturday night’s...

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New post: A Musical Journey Through the Pandemic classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

A Musical Journey Through the Pandemic - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

“Healing and Transcendence” aptly defined the Eureka Ensemble's results in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E Minor at the Church of the Covenant on Saturday night.

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New post: Reintroducing Lost Treasures classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Reintroducing Lost Treasures - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

David Russell’s May 6th  recital for the Boston Classical Guitar Society at Boston’s First Lutheran Church reminded us that there is yet much to say in the tonal language and that treasures by...

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New post: Mayor Wu Leads City on a Hill From Keyboard classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Mayor Wu Leads City on a Hill From Keyboard - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

For one inspiring afternoon, Boston returned to its elevated Athenian stature, as Mayor Michelle Wu, resplendent in an intensely blue evening gown (how often has anyone so described a mayor?) filled...

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New post: Britten Highlighted in “This Love Unbound” classical-scene.com/2023/05/…

Britten Highlighted in “This Love Unbound” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer

An Urbanity Dance-Emmanuel Music collaboration brought “This Love Unbound” to Arts at the Armory in Somerville  last Saturday and Sunday. Short recent works by John Harbison and Caroline Shaw broke...

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