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February 11, 2008 03:23 PM EST --
Bringing Boston's A-list together for an evening of elegance and entertainment, the BSO's Repartee group in conjunction with Stuff@Night Magazine and The Boston Phoenix will host an exclusive . . .
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January 10, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
Thanks to everyone who came to our Repartee event on January 8th andmade it a great success! And special thanks to Marc Mandel, ourspeaker, and violinist Emil Altschuler, our musical guest.
Ournext . . .
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February 11, 2008 02:52 PM EST --
Shostakovich was on a roll in the 1920s. His First Symphony, a graduation piece from his final days at the Leningrad Conservatory, catapulted him to international stardom and secured for him . . .
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January 17, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Mitsuko Uchida has been playing Mozart for what seems likean eternity. She has studied, performed, and recorded all 27 concerti, and her thoughtful and nuanced approach borrows from the insights of . . .
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February 28, 2008 11:30 AM EST --
Anyone who witnessed the glorious recital that Thomas Quasthoff presented with James Levine this past weekend of the complete Winterreise song cycle by Schubert knows that he is blessed with . . .
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April 28, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
In November we heard Mahler's Ninth Symphony, a musical monument to life yet haunted by death, a piece the stares through and transcends mortality, an otherworldly farewell that has to be experienced . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Friends on Gather.com! Ring in the New Year with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops! M embers of the Boston Symphony Gather.com online community get $20 off per ticket when you purchase . . .
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February 26, 2008 09:38 AM EST --
Especially with a maestro like Levine at the helm of the Boston Symphony , we've gotten used to hearing huge masterpieces—works that exploit the grandeur, the huge sound and dexterous playing . . .
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January 25, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
Performances of The Dream of Gerontius are rare. From a logistical standpoint, the piece raises some problems. It requires a large orchestra, full chorus, and vocal soloists, which for a work that . . .
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March 24, 2008 11:05 AM EDT --
A brief stint as a busker in Harvard, performing as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride." A B.A. from Wesleyan. A period founding and developing the street theater . . .
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January 10, 2008 02:17 PM EST --
This week, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos returns for another program of unabashedly romantic canonized works with the Boston Symphony. They may be back from the Holiday Popsseason, but the BSO's musical . . .
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February 01, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
It seems like symphony concerts across the country offer the opportunity to see only one soloist per evening. We generally hear one concerto in between a shorter overture and a symphony, and . . .
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February 10, 2009 10:55 AM EST --
Simon Boccanegra may be considered a connoisseur’s opera with its convoluted plot, political focus, and male-voice dominated timbre. However, anyone that attended the series of performances this past . . .
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December 01, 2008 01:37 PM EST --
The BSO is pleased to offer $20 tickets for patrons under 40!
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, $20 tickets are available now through the remainder of the BSO season for . . .
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December 23, 2008 11:21 AM EST --
The BSO Digital Music Service allows patrons to purchase and download from the BSO website, digital music files of music that the BSO produces! The initial rollout of this service will include albums . . .
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March 11, 2008 09:36 AM EDT --
A number of great maestros have conducted the BSO this season including (but not limited to) Bob Spano, Fruhbeck de Burgos, Sir Colin Davis, Cristoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, and of course James . . .
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March 18, 2008 03:12 PM EDT --
With the recent passing of Craig Smith, founder and Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music, Boston has grown a little more sensitive to the music of Bach. Early music has always flourished here, . . .
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March 19, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
[The following post is also the text of a Podcast for this program available on bso.org and iTunes]
The concert circuit is crowded with young, talented performers with perfect technique and a powerful . . .
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November 13, 2008 04:25 PM EST --
There are countless masterpieces for solo violin with orchestra, just as fantastic arias for soprano are a dime a dozen. The repertoire for the cello, however, is much more limited. Long considered exclusively . . .
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November 30, 2007 04:14 PM EST --
Few composers are blessed with fame and fortune during their lifetime and fewer receive that acclaim at a young age. But things are different for Osvaldo Golijov who, while still in his forties, . . .
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