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Classical Concert Review: BMOP celebrates Joan Tower

Above all, Joan Tower’s music doesn’t waste your time.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Joan Tower

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s “Glass Works”

It was a treat to experience Philip Glass’s orchestral music live and in-person.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Glass Works, Philip Glass

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s “American Masters”

The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gail Kubik, Gil-Rose, Jing Peng viola, Michael Colgrass, Partita in C, Steven Stucky, Symphony Concertante, Terry Everson trumpet, The Schubert Birds, Vivian Choi piano. Harold Shapero, Vivian Choi piano. Steven Stucky Chamber Concerto

Concert Review: Odyssey Opera’s Inspired Production of Dvořák’s “Dimitrij”

For my money, the biggest star on Friday night turned out to be none other than Antonin Dvořák.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Antonín-Dvořák, BMOP, Dmitrij, Gil-Rose, Odyssey Opera

Music Interview: Preview/Interview with Gil Rose on Odyssey Opera’s “Dmitrij”

“Would I love to do these big operas in Symphony Hall? Yes. When I feel like I’ve got two-thousand people to attend, I’ll move over to Symphony Hall.”

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Interview, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: Antonín-Dvořák, BMOP, Dmitrij, Gil-Rose, Odyssey Opera

Commentary/CD Reviews: Recent Symphonic Recordings From Boston Orchestras

A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American, Andrew Norman, BMOP, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, contemporary, Gil-Rose, Irving-Fine, James Levine, John Harbison, Play, Symphonies, Symphony, Try

Music Commentary: Notable Classical Performances of 2014

It’s fun to recall what’s been played locally since January and be reminded just how rich the greater Boston area’s classical music scene really is.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: A Fine Centennial, Andris Nelsons, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Claudio Abbado, Die tote Stadt, Drift and Providence, Gil-Rose, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Monadnock Music, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Piano Concerto, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Salome, Samuel Carl Adams, San Francisco Symphony, Sebastian Knauer, Shall we Dance?, Simone Dinnerstein, Sir Christopher Hogwood, Tessa Lark, The Discovery Ensemble, The Love Potion, Witold Lutoslawski

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s Surround Sound at Jordan Hall

The orchestral playing, a couple moments of questionable intonation notwithstanding, was commanding and, at times, exhilarating.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Constellation, David Felder, De Ritis, Gil-Rose, Jordan Hall, Les Quatre temps Cardinaux, Ronald Bruce Smith, Surround Sound

Concert Review: BMOP Presents “A Fine Centennial” at Jordan Hall

While 1962’s Symphony owes a clear debt to Stravinsky and Britten (especially its last movement), it sounds like nobody but Irving Fine. This is a score that orchestras ought to be lining up to play.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arthur Berger, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Harold Shapero, Irving-Fine

CD Reviews: BMOP plays Babbitt and Antheil (BMOP/Sound), and Chris Wild’s Abhanden (Navona Records)

Snappy new recordings of the music of Milton Babbitt and George Antheil from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project while cellist Christ Wild’s disc offers a fascinating journey through some richly diverse musical soundscapes.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: A Jazz Symphony, Abhanden, All Set, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Chris Wild, George Antheil, Milton Babbitt, Navona Records

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