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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 24, 2008 11:05 AM EST --
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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:36 AM EST --
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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 18, 2008 03:12 PM EST --
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, . . . more
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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, . . . more
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May 02, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
For the final performance of the 2007-2008 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, James Levine leads the orchestra in perhaps the most audacious, and certainly the most extensive, program of his tenure in . . . more
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January 03, 2008 12:30 PM EST --
There are conductors that make the Boston Symphony sound great, and there are conductors that make the Boston Symphony sound magnificent. Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos is the latter. Few maestros elicit . . . more
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