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Susan Miron

 
Fuse Classical Music Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Ends Its Season Brilliantly

Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s programming, the brainchild of its director and flutist Deborah Boldin, aims to place pieces together that have interesting things in common musically and culturally.

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Classical Music Sampler: May 2012

Many musical organizations around New England are performing their last concerts of the season, so if there’s a group you’ve been wanting to hear, this is a good opportunity.

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Fuse Concert Review: Emmanuel Music Performs Mozart's Rarely Staged Operatic Salute to Forgiveness -- "La Clemenza di Tito"

Emmanuel Music bought this neglected Mozart opera to life with polished musicianship and excellent singers.

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Fuse Concert Review: Paco de Lucía — The Rock Star of Flamenco Guitar

There was nothing in the program about the pieces he and his fellow musicians would be playing, but no one seemed to care. Most already knew the music from Paco de Lucía’s recordings. They were coming to hear him live, and there was not an empty seat to be seen in the Boston Opera House.

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Fuse Concert Review: An Embarrassment of Vocal Riches — Blue Heron and The Tallis Scholars

It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.

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Classical Music Sampler: April 2012

April is an unusually excellent month for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts — a promisng match up of programs and conductors.

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Fuse Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Delves into the Romantic Spirit

Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s program, “into unison with romantic spirit,” contained more rarities than many chamber music groups perform in a season.

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Fuse Concert Review: Cantata Singers Deliver the Goods, Passionately

Section by section, Cantata Singers & Ensemble are as good as choral groups get, which in this town of dozens of choruses, says quite a lot.

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Classical Music Sampler: March 2012

This month I am simply listing concerts I expect will be great. My pick of the month is the Boston debut of a new Flute, Viola, and Harp trio, starring instrumental superstars Marina Piccinini, Kim Kashkashian, and Sivan Magen.

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Fuse Concert Review:  Chameleon Arts Ensemble Heads North

Ms. Bolden’s goal of evoking wintry climes was achieved because of her choice of pieces and musicians, who performed these compositions so well.

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Fuse Concert Review: Two Memorable Productions of Charming Ravel Operas

Aside from the intrinsic entertainment value of these operas, they show Ravel in quite a different light than we are used to from his chamber and other orchestral music.

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Classical Music Sampler: February 2012

February feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.

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Fuse Concert Review: A Lively Anonymous 4

The Anonymous 4 went through their medieval and early Renaissance paces, vibrato-less but historically informed and performed.

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 Classical Music Sampler: January 2012

Highlights in classical music during January include a visit by the acclaimed cappella group Anonymous Four at the Gardner Museum’s new concert hall, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performing “Strange Bedfellows: Unlikely Concertos.”

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Stile Antico Enchants Singing Tudor Music for Christmas and Advent

Most importantly, there were the amazing, booming acoustics of St. Paul’s, which favored the soaring soprano voices that were, for me, the reason to see this excellent ensemble.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: The Hypnotically Lovely Playing of Pianist Angela Hewitt

Pianist Angela Hewitt’s performance was hypnotically lovely. She has a beautiful touch, as piano teachers like to say, and her playing was colorful and always elegant.

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Classical Music Sampler: December 2011

It may be the holiday season, but there are a surprisingly large amount of really great concerts this month, some of which are free.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival's Duo of Charpentier Operas Delights

I keep being surprised by the brilliant productions and overall excellence of the concerts Boston Early Music Festival presents.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: A Love-in for Itzhak Perlman

Violinist Itzhak Perlman is the go-to guy when a world-class violinist is needed at presidential inaugurations, for visiting royalty, and as a guest for cooking shows.

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