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Announcement – BSO Offers Free Tickets to Active Military Members
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OFFERS COMPLIMENTARYTICKETS TO ACTIVE MILITARY MEMBERS TO NOVEMBER 12CONCERT IN HONOR OF VETERANS DAY In honor of Veterans Day on November 11, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will offer complimentary tickets for active members of the military for the orchestra’s concert on November 12, at 8 p.m., at Symphony Hall. The concert features [...]
Announcement – Kim Kashkashian in Jordan Hall, Dec 2
Violist Kim Kashkashian to Perform Hayren, Settings of Poems by Komitas, Dec. 2 at NEC’s Jordan Hall Performers from Kashkashian’s ECM Recording Reassembled for This Concert Include Tigran Mansurian, Robyn Schulkowsky Conservatory violist Kim Kashkashian will bring together Armenian composer, pianist and vocalist Tigran Mansurian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky to recreate her 2005 ECM recording, [...]
Announcement – Luisi and de la Salle Debut at BSO
ITALIAN CONDUCTOR FABIO LUISI AND FRENCH PIANIST LISE DE LA SALLE MAKE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUTS PROGRAM FEATURES SAINT-SAËNS PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2,HONEGGER’S PASTORALE D’ÉTÉ, ANDSTRAVINSKY’S PETRUSHKA. Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal), Nov. 12 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. In concerts November 12 and 14, the dynamic [...]
Announcement – Emmanuel Music Presents "Inventing Genesis" – Nov 14
On November 14, 2009, Emmanuel Music, led by Acting Artistic Director John Harbison and Associate Conductor Michael Beattie, presents its first evening concert in a season featuring the music of Franz Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg. This concert, titled Inventing Genesis, features Haydn’s masterpiece Creation (Die Schöpfung) and Schoenberg’s Prelude Op.44 (Genesis). Both pieces express [...]
Announcement – Don Was at Berklee – Nov 19
The 2009/2010 Music Series at Berklee continues with Grammy award winning producer and composer Don Was, who will perform a selection of songs he’s produced for some of history’s most iconic rock performers, along with Berklee faculty member Marty Walsh and a student ensemble on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance [...]
Announcement – Radius Ensemble Concert – November 14 in Cambridge
The critically acclaimed Radius Ensemble continues its eleventh season November 12 & 14 with concerts at the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston and MIT in Cambridge. The program features jazz great Paquito D’Rivera’s Cuban-flavored Aires tropicales for wind quintet, as well as Mozart’s horn quintet, Martinu’s sonata for flute, violin and piano, and the clarinet [...]
MUST HEAR CONCERT AT SYMPHONY HALL – SUNDAY
Robert Levin. Image provided bythe Handel and Haydn Society “[Robert ] Levin, the Harvard-based musician who for decades has been the chief guru of classical improvisation, believes that performances need to cultivate risk and surprise. Otherwise, he says, music becomes “gymnastics with the affectation of emotional content”—a phrase that sums up uncomfortably large tracts of [...]
Improv at Symphony – Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 This Weekend
Robert Levin at work. Imagecourtesy of the Handel & Haydn Society by Stephen Brophy With all the jazz clubs in the neighborhood, Fenwickians are used to the idea of musical improvisation. But most of us don’t expect to experience it at Symphony Hall. Expect the unexpected there this weekend though, when Harvard music professor Robert [...]
Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats at NU – Tonight!
IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Shangri-La Chinese AcrobatsThursday, November 5Northeastern UniversityBlackman Auditorium, Ell Hall 8PM360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA “ A delight for all ages; A flurry of pure showmanship!” –San Francisco Chronicle “The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats perform astounding feats with seeming ease that belies their intense concentration!”-The New York Post The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats have taken [...]
Robert Levin – Biography
Robert Levin Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and in Asia, in recital, as soloist, and in chamber concerts. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as James Conlon, Bernard [...]
Print Edition: May 2012
