Classical Music

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One

May 4, 2015
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Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Balancing Acts at Symphony Hall

April 27, 2015
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What makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.

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Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Pianists Impress ‘Up Close’

April 23, 2015
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Had they not had interesting and flourishing careers already in place, Elizabeth Schumann and Gloria Chien could give many full-time piano duos a run for their money.

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Concert Review: Joseph Calleja — A Tenor to Love

April 20, 2015
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Joseph Calleja’s voice is absolutely gorgeous, and he has been compared to the great Golden Age tenors Gigli and Caruso.

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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — A Real Tradition, but of What?

April 20, 2015
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The tradition of hybrids is there, for anyone who chooses to use it. Our modern media world makes that tradition accessible in hitherto unimaginable ways.

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Fuse Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Schuller, Mozart, and Strauss

April 16, 2015
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There was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.

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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto –Revisiting the Jazz Side

April 16, 2015
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What I’ve learned from three years of research and listening is that the piano concerto is an ideal vehicle with which individual composers can experiment

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1960 – 2004

April 8, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

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Concert Review: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, Andris Nelsons, and the BSO — Electrifying

April 6, 2015
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Saturday’s was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) I’ve heard.

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Jazz Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1938-1983

April 4, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

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