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Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey first performed, as the soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. in the Celebrity Series line-up back in 2007. He made his second appearance at NEC’s Jordan Hall two nights ago. It was a spectacular performance.
Read MoreAward-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: “My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I’m always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why must we die? Is this all there is?”
Read MoreAside from the intrinsic entertainment value of these operas, they show Ravel in quite a different light than we are used to from his chamber and other orchestral music.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreI recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
Read MoreFebruary feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.
Read MoreThe SAG Awards have everything you want, and very little you don’t. The ceremony celebrates film and television, so it’s always star-packed, and only honors actors, so you don’t have to sit through hours of awards for Best Sound Editing.
Read MoreThe Anonymous 4 went through their medieval and early Renaissance paces, vibrato-less but historically informed and performed.
Read MoreOur discussions always took the same turn. Philip Guston attempted to convince me that artists like Piero della Francesca and the cave painters of Lascaux were in the first place abstractionists.
Read MoreAfter 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.
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Locke’s List for 2025: Notable Operatic Recordings and a Few Non-Operatic Ones