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Susan Miron

Concert Review: L.A. Philharmonic — Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang

Concert Review: L.A. Philharmonic — Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang

The charmed trifecta of John Adams, Yuja Wang, and Gustavo Dudamel produced a hit, at least to this Boston audience.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Gustavo-Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Yuja Wang

Classical CD Reviews: Two Holiday Albums That Strike Like Thunderbolts

Classical CD Reviews: Two Holiday Albums That Strike Like Thunderbolts

These superbly produced — and sung, played, and conducted — holiday music albums are perfect stocking stuffers.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial De Catalunya, Le Concert Des Nations, Messiah

Classical CD Review: Hungarian Composer Ernő Dohnányi — Love at First Listen

Classical CD Review: Hungarian Composer Ernő Dohnányi — Love at First Listen

This is a gem of a recording, a wonderful introduction to this often overlooked Hungarian composer.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ernő Dohnányi, Hyperion, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Takács Quartet

Concert Review: Skylark’s Rachmaninoff’s Vespers a.k.a. All-Night Vigil — A Beautiful Benediction

Concert Review: Skylark’s Rachmaninoff’s Vespers a.k.a. All-Night Vigil — A Beautiful Benediction

Skylark continues to impress me with its distinctly beautiful sound, its dazzling control over dynamics and intonation, and its unusually compelling programming.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Skylark Vocal Ensemble

Classical Album Review: A Splendid Introduction to the Music of Alberto Ginastera

Classical Album Review: A Splendid Introduction to the Music of Alberto Ginastera

Ginastera’s innovative style often draws comparisons to Bartók and Stravinsky for the artful ways in which he integrated folk music and dance forms from his native country into a striking, modernist musical language.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alberto Ginastera, Ginastera Harp Concerto, LAWO Classics, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Sidsel Walstad, Susan Miron

Arts Feature: “Sesame Street” Comes to Harvard University to Celebrate Turning 50

Arts Feature: “Sesame Street” Comes to Harvard University to Celebrate Turning 50

The highly entertaining gala celebrated the five decade long partnership between TV’s Sesame Street and Harvard University.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: harvard-university, Lawrence Bacow, Sesame Street

Classical CD Review: “Free America!, Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion” — Fight the Power!

Classical CD Review: “Free America!, Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion” — Fight the Power!

Enjoy Boston Camerata’s Free America! for its high spirits and its crafty, delicious way of making the iconoclasm of the past come alive.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Folk, Music, Review Tagged: Anne Azéma, Boston Camerata, Free America!, Harmonia Mundi, Susan Miron

Classical Music CD Reviews: Two Refreshingly Different Takes On Mozart

Classical Music CD Reviews: Two Refreshingly Different Takes On Mozart

Two recordings serve up the music of Mozart in unusual packages.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Canary Classics, David Robertson, Hyperion Records, Orli Shaham, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, The Jupiter Project: Mozart in the nineteenth-century drawing room

Classical CD Review: Bravo Leoš Janáček — A Marvelous Serving of his Vocal Music

Classical CD Review: Bravo Leoš Janáček — A Marvelous Serving of his Vocal Music

This album led me to choose, for a summer project, to listen to all of the music of Janáček — and it has been a complete delight.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, Julius Drake, Leoš Janáček, Nicky Spense, The diary of one who disappeared

Classical Music Review: At BEMF, Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia Seduce with Charms and Riddles

Classical Music Review: At BEMF, Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia Seduce with Charms and Riddles

Thanks to BEMF for once again presenting Benjamin Bagby, who seems incapable of serving up anything but a wonderfully memorable experience.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin Bagby, Boston Early Music Festival, Sequentia

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