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Concert Review: The Borromeo String Quartet @ 25 — Sublime

No other concerts I’ve heard this summer can come close to the thrill I experienced hearing the Borromeo Quartet.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Bartok, Beethoven, Borromeo Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum, Schubert

Visual Arts: Portraitist Anders Zorn — From Stardom to Seclusion

The journey of Anders Zorn, from Swedish hamlet to the top echelon of society portraitists and back again, has a couple of messages for us. The first leg of the journey tells us that careerism is not a new phenomenon in the art world. The second tells us what it may be worth in the end.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Anders Zorn, Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum

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.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: A Far Cry, Anne Azéma, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brown Hall, Calderwood Hall, Celebrity-Series, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Church of St. John the Evangelist, David Finckel, Emanuel Ax, Emmanuel Music, Frank Kelly, George Li, Hugh-Wolff, Ina Zdorovetchi, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum, Jaap van Zweden, Kurt Masur, Music for Food, NEC, NEC Philharmonia, Philip Setzer, Russell Sherman, The Borromeo String Quartet, The Boston Camerata, Wu Han

Fuse Concert Review: A Lively Anonymous 4

The Anonymous 4 went through their medieval and early Renaissance paces, vibrato-less but historically informed and performed.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Anonymous 4, Calderwood Hall, Harmonia Mundi, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum

Film Review: “Stolen” Beauty

A gorgeous documentary examines the 1990 heist of priceless art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. By Betsy Sherman It must be hard to decide at what point to undertake a documentary about an ongoing investigation. What if events conspire to make the film you’ve shot seem half-baked, or even irrelevant? Rebecca Dreyfus’ “Stolen,” about […]

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Film Tagged: Film, Gardner-Heist, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum

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