Jonathan Blumhofer

Concert Reviews: The First Wave of Odyssey Opera’s “The British Invasion”

June 4, 2015
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To say that Odyssey Opera continues to set the bar for opera performances in Boston may be a bit superfluous, but it’s true.

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Commentary/CD Reviews: Recent Symphonic Recordings From Boston Orchestras

May 19, 2015
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A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.

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Classical Music Commentary: On Andris Nelsons’ First Season in Boston and a Look Ahead at 2015-16

May 18, 2015
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By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.

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Fuse Opera Preview: Odyssey Opera Presents “The British Invasion”

May 17, 2015
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Taken together, it’s a bracing, provocative, and – perhaps above all – fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.

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Fuse Concert Review: Radius Ensemble’s “Insight” — As Probing As Ever

May 7, 2015
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Radius Ensemble’s final performance of the season touched on examples of musical fantasy, worldly angst, and spiritual transcendence.

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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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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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Classical Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Gandolfi and Mahler

March 27, 2015
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Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.

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Fuse News: Lowell House Opera presents Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”

March 25, 2015
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New England’s oldest continuously-active opera company brings to Boston a rare performance of one of Tchaikovsky’s less-familiar operatic scores.

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Classical CD Reviews: Simone Dinnerstein plays Ravel, Lasser, and Gershwin

March 19, 2015
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Pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s new album, Broadway-Lafayette, features her on three pieces, all written since 1924, that celebrate musical ties between France and the United States.

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