There’s so much going on in the area that’s good that it’s a challenge to go wrong.
Emmanuel Music
Concert Review: Emmanuel Music’s Late Night Show
David Lang’s score is hypnotic, and Emmanuel Music’s quartet of singers gave wonderful renditions.
Fuse Concert Review: Emmanuel Music — Beethoven Inspires a Seriously Big Event
The Emmanuel Music concert was a seriously Big Event, as most Russell Sherman performances are, with many outstanding pianists there to hear it.
Fuse Music Review: Emmanuel Music’s “A Little Night Music” — An Uneven Evening
With a Stephen Sondheim show, it’s all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music’s casting was a mixed bag.
REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?
This Judicial Review deals with the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s opera version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Read the reactions and join the conversation.
Concert Review: Emmanuel Music Performs Mozart’s Rarely Staged Operatic Salute to Forgiveness — “La Clemenza di Tito”
Emmanuel Music bought this neglected Mozart opera to life with polished musicianship and excellent singers.
Classical Music Sampler: February 2012
February feels like the ‘New November’: concerts of real interest during the weekdays and too many great concerts during the weekends.
Classical Music Sampler: January 2012
Highlights in classical music during January include a visit by the acclaimed cappella group Anonymous Four at the Gardner Museum’s new concert hall, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performing “Strange Bedfellows: Unlikely Concertos.”
Classical Music Sampler: November 2011
It’s “Mahler Unleashed” month at the New England Conservatory. I heartily recommend all of the “Mahler Unleashed” events.
Classical Music Sampler: September 2011
A busy month in New England, with at least two classical music traditions kicking off the season in Boston: Longy School of Music’s free SeptemberFest and Fenwick Smith’s 35th annual flute recital at Jordan Hall (Sept 4 @ 3p.m.).