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Boston-Conservatory

Concert Review: Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” at the Boston Conservatory

The Boston Conservatory production of Mass was mostly frustrating, but Leonard Bernstein’s score came across very strongly.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston-Conservatory, Leonard Bernstein, Mass, Stephen Schwartz

Concert Review: “A Score To Settle” — A Monodrama About A Harpist and Her Seductive Slavedriver

Why, Rita Costanzi asks incredulously, do harpists, albeit occasionally, marry other harpists: “Does the word masochist mean anything to you?”

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: A Score to Settle, Boston-Conservatory, Rita Costanzi

Concert Review: Joseph Silverstein and the Boston Conservatory Orchestra/Bruce Hangen at Sanders Theater

Now a remarkably energetic eighty, violinist Joseph Silverstein may have lost a bit of his former technical facilities, but his playing is marked by musical sensibilities that come from his many years of experience.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston-Conservatory, Bruce Hagen, Joseph Silverstein

Concert Review: Two Memorable Productions of Charming Ravel Operas

Aside 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.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston Conservatory Theatre, Boston-Conservatory, colette, Courtney Miller, L'enfant et les sortilèges, Maurice Ravel, The Child and the Spells, The Spanish Hour

Music Review/Commentary: Gunther Schuller’s Gift of Giving – Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival III

Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is his third installment, which focuses on Gunther Schuller, who has inspired at least four generations of artists and revitalized a venerable institution of higher musical learning.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Boston-Conservatory, Gunther Schuller, New Music Festival, TBC

Music Review/Commentary: The Fringe in Context — Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival II

Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Bob Gullotti, Boston-Conservatory, Eric Hewitt, George Garzone, John Lockwood, New Music Festival, The Fringe, trio

Music Review / Commentary: A Dispatch from the Border

Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the first.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston-Conservatory, New Music Festival

Classical Music Interview: Franz Liszt’s 200th Birthday Bash

It’s the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt, and there are concerts, conferences, and projects devoted to the pianist/composer going on all over the world this year. Lisztomania at New England Conservatory is one of a number of parties in the Boston area. The Boston Conservatory is also puttin’ on the Liszt. By Bill Marx In […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Interview Tagged: birthday, Boston-Conservatory, Bruce Brubaker, Franz Liszt, New England Conservatory, Pianist

Concert Review: Beethoven’s Final Piano Sonatas

We often hear about how Brahms and Mahler lived under the shadow of Beethoven’s symphonies, but I suspect many other composers had the last three sonatas in their heads, keeping them both inspired and humble. Beethoven Opus 109. 110, 111. Performed by pianist Till Fellner. At Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory, October 12, 2010. By Susan […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Bethoven, Boston-Conservatory, piano, Sonatas, Susan Miron, Till Fellner

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2009

By Bill Marx Somewhere an enterprising graduate student is working on a trenchant study of the correlation between holiday stage entertainment and the American economy. When things were looking bright and profitable the shows became cynical and comic, with mischievous elves placing whoopee cushions under our delusions of good cheer. Now that unemployment is high […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Civil War Christmas, American Repertory Theater, Best of Both Worlds, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston-Conservatory, Charlestown Working Theater, Donald Margulies, Huntington Theater Company, John Kuntz, Lyric stage company of boston, Machinal, November theater picks, Out on the Edge, Paula-Vogel, Shipwrecked!, Theater Offensive, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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