Jonathan Blumhofer
The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
Read MoreThe English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
Read MoreThis season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.
Read MoreThree new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.
Read MoreMy snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).
Read MoreBeethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Read MoreKurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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