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Jonathan Blumhofer

Concert Review: Nicholas Kitchen and Yeesun Kim at the Worcester Art Museum

WAM’s Chamber Music Series is a model for what chamber music performance ought to be: excellent musicians performing in a small space with a rather informal air to the proceedings.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Borromeo String Quartet, Nicholas Kitchen, WAM’s Chamber Music Series, Worcester Arts Museum, Yeesun Kim

Concert Review: Yeol Eum Son at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA

Ms. Son’s performance of Debussy’s Preludes nos. 3 – 8, while mostly note-perfect, was marked by a tentativeness that kept any of them from really blossoming.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: MA, piano, Worcester, Yeol Eum Som

Fuse Concert Review: Alexander Baille and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra/Benjamin Zander at Sanders Theater

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra handled Lutosławski’s aleatoric textures with confidence, though the all-important brass interruptions felt more hesitant than decisive, making the work’s narrative quality rather episodic as opposed to smoothly flowing.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Alexander Baille, Benjamin-Zander, BPO, The Boston Philharmonic, The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

Fuse Concert Review: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis at Symphony Hall

John Oliver, director of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, deserves the thanks of all involved for his willingness to take on this unenviable assignment, as well as credit for ensuring that the performance didn’t fall off the tracks.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cathy Basrak, John Oliver, Missa solemnis, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra

CD Reviews: John Adams — Harmonielehre and Short Ride in a Fast Machine (SFSO/Tilson Thomas)

The recording was made in December 2010 in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall, and reveals an orchestra fully at home in John Adams’ distinctive idiom.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: CD, Edo de Waart, Harmonielehre, John Adams, Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, SFSO

Concert Review: Peter Serkin/BSO/Stéphane Denève

Perhaps most remarkably, BSO conductor Stéphane Denève managed to create an atmosphere in which the Symphony Hall audience, which at this time of year sometimes sounds like it’s made up of inpatients from a tuberculosis ward, was utterly captivated: even the quietest moments were accompanied by a welcomed, attentive silence.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, Peter Serkin, Stephane Deneve

Fuse Concert Review: Emmanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden at Symphony Hall

To judge from the all-around energetic playing of the BSO, it seems conductor Jaap van Zweden has struck a good rapport with the players and I, for one, look forward to hearing more from him in coming seasons.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Emmanuel Ax, Jaap van Zweden, The Boston Symphony Orchestra

Book Review: The Precarious Existence of Symphony Orchestras

This is a book for anyone interested not just in the economic state of the symphony orchestra, but in the overall financial health of the arts in the United States.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera Boston, Robert J. Flanagan, The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras: Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges, Yale U Press

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey Light Up Symphony Hall

After the “Lobgesang”’s premiere, Robert Schumann declared this movement “a glimpse of heaven filled with Raphael’s madonnas,” and Saturday’s performance by the BSO came about as close to that as one could imagine, sensitively phrased and beautifully blended.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey, BSO, Felix Mendelssohn, Lobgesang

Classical Music Review: BMOP Revitalizes the Concept of a Concerto Concert

Though there were differences in quality between the compositions in the BMOP concert, all of the pieces fulfilled the primary requirement of a concerto: they showed off the capabilities of the solo instrument in question, often memorably so.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Andrew Norman, Avner Dorman, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, concerto, Eric Chasalow, Gil-Rose, Keeril Makan, Luciano Berio, Strange Bedfellows: Unexpected Concertos

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