Review
The Henry Purcell Society proves that playing mad can be a lot of fun.
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We are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.
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These superbly produced — and sung, played, and conducted — holiday music albums are perfect stocking stuffers.
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Michael Tilson Thomas delivers a towering Ives Fourth; pianist Conrad Tao’s American Rage is hard-edged and defiant, but also poignant and stirring; Gianandrea Noseda’s Shostakovich Fourth is ferocious.
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What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.
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A script with this many characters buzzing about demands a strong cast — fortunately, Hub Theatre’s terrific ensemble is more than up to the task.
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Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.
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A noteworthy recording of Ernst von Dohnányi’s Symphony no. 1; as usual, Harry Christophers and the Handel & Haydn Society play Haydn with their customary elegance and character; a celebration of British composer Eric Coates – his music’s impossibly fresh tunefulness, striking progressions, and vividly idiomatic orchestrations.
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Judy McKie draws on a personal mythology in which animal and plant forms become abstracted yet recognizable, anthropomorphic while remaining strangely primeval.
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Violinist Liza Ferschtman and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s account of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto lacked nothing for momentum and spirit.
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