Music
This was a fascinating program conducted by someone that the BSO will hopefully put (firmly) into their rotation of distinguished guest conductors.
Green Day’s latest offering is a largely unoriginal, imitative hodgepodge.
“I’d be happy to start making a new record tomorrow, but I don’t know if we’ve all decided what the next move is.”
The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.
The central mystery of the life of Brian Wilson: How did such a sweet and fragile soul create such complex and enduring music?
As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.
Singer Bobby Rush is not just a world-class entertainer, but also one of the last masters of traditional blues.
The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.
To speak with Jörg Widmann is to encounter a mind furiously at work and aware of his craft as viewed through the lens of Western history.
Classical Music Commentary: What’s Next for the Boston Symphony? — Lessons from the Past