Susan Miron
Pianist Angela Hewitt’s performance was hypnotically lovely. She has a beautiful touch, as piano teachers like to say, and her playing was colorful and always elegant.
It may be the holiday season, but there are a surprisingly large amount of really great concerts this month, some of which are free.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman is the go-to guy when a world-class violinist is needed at presidential inaugurations, for visiting royalty, and as a guest for cooking shows.
It’s “Mahler Unleashed” month at the New England Conservatory. I heartily recommend all of the “Mahler Unleashed” events.
The Music for Food concerts are free, but people are urged to contribute cash, checks or canned goods, a tiny step towards righting “the horrible discrepancies we are living with.”
BSCP has enough cachet to hire the best in the business — each of the evening’s soloist had instruments and resumes to, as they say, die for — competitions won, festivals performed in, prizes, solo performances everywhere but the South Pole.
Audra McDonald is so popular on stage, in concert, and on television that she has become, to many, a one-name goddess like Bette, Judy, and Barbra. Judging from her recent star turn in the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Porgy and Bess” and this brilliant concert, she can give the other One-Named Ones a run for their money.
October offers an embarrassment of musical riches. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, without a music director, is still putting on impressive programs, including several this month.
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