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A Far Cry

Music Preview: Music as Metaphor — A Far Cry, a Physicist, and a Composer Reflect on “Gravity”

The music swelled as the early universe spun …

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, Eric Fishman

Classical CD Reviews: “Visions and Variations,” “Songs From Chicago,” and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Beethoven and Ravel

A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Beethoven and Ravel, Cedille, Crier Records, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Helicon, Songs from Chicago, Thomas Hampson, Visions and Variations

Concert Review: A Healing Space — A Far Cry and the Miró Quartet Present “Loss and Resurrection”

This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Loss and Resurrection, Miro Quartet

Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2017

A line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can’t, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: A Far Cry, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Christian Tetzlaff, Glass Works, Jacquelyn Stucker, Martha Argerich., New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Pamela Frank, Roomful of Teeth, The Maid of Orleans

Commentary: 2017-18 Orchestral, Opera, and New Music Season Preview

Some institutions’ offerings aren’t as challenging as they could be, but there’s a healthy balance between the familiar and new.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, and Brahms Society Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Bach, Beethoven, Boston Baroque, Boston New Music Festival, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Boston-Musica-Viva, Celebrity-Series, Center for New Music, Collage New Music, Guerilla Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, Lexington Symphony, NEC orchestras, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry

Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Celebrity-Series, Coloring Book, Law of Mosaics, Roomful of Teeth, Sanders Theatre, Ted Hearne

Music Commentary/Preview: 2016 Fall Orchestral Season Overview

In the six years I’ve now been reviewing for the Fuse, I can honestly say that the 2016-17 season looks to be one of the liveliest in recent memory.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, Bach Beethoven and Brahms Society Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony, Boston-Philharmonic, Cantata Singers, Celebrity-Series, Grand Harmonie, Handel and Haydn Society, Lexington Symphony, Longwood Symphony, New England Conservatory, New-England-Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

Classical Concert Review — A Far Cry’s “All-American” Finale

One takeaway from the concert: music can be forward-looking and even provocative without being off-putting and ugly.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, All-American program, Anthony Marwood, Derek Bermel, Leonard Bernstein, Mark O’Connor, Philip Glass

Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron

I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Blue Heron vocal group, Old South Church, Scott Metcalfe

Fuse Commentary: 2013-1014 Orchestral Season Preview

So, even though certain pieces by Mendelssohn and Beethoven seem to be turning up with greater frequency than perhaps may be healthy, there is still much to admire and look forward to in the upcoming orchestral season.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: A Far Cry, Boston Baroque, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Philharmonic, Cantata Singers, Celebrity-Series, Lexington Symphony, Martin Pearlman, New-England-Philharmonic, The Handel and Haydn Society

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