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James MacMillan

Rethinking the Repertoire #4: James MacMillan’s “Tryst”

Rethinking the Repertoire #4: James MacMillan’s “Tryst”

James MacMillan is one of the few contemporary composers who has embraced elements of the avant-garde and still found a wide audience.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: James MacMillan, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Tryst

Classical CD Reviews: James MacMillan conducts Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, and Britten and Boston Lyric Opera’s “Clemency”

Classical CD Reviews: James MacMillan conducts Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, and Britten and Boston Lyric Opera’s “Clemency”

Two recent albums feature compositions by James MacMillan, one of Europe’s leading composers, as well as an opportunity to hear him conducting.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Benjamin Britten, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Clemency, Harmonia Mundi, James MacMillan, Nicholas Daniel, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Opera Review: An Uneven “Clemency” at the Boston Lyric Opera Annex

Opera Review: An Uneven “Clemency” at the Boston Lyric Opera Annex

Composer James MacMillan’s musical strategy in this opera is a stylistic patchwork that seems to mean to convey that each character inhabits a different, mutually misunderstood world.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Andrew Eggert, Boston Lyric Opera Annex, Clemency, James MacMillan, Michael Symmons Roberts

Classical Music Sampler: January 2010

Classical Music Sampler: January 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb Jan. 6,7,8,9,12: The Boston Symphony is led by Ton Koopman (b. 1944), Dutch keyboardist, conductor, and specialist in early music, knighted in 2003 in the Netherlands. With a bow to Haydn, the bicentennial of whose death occurred in 2009, there are two works: Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major (1792), and Cello […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Music Tagged: ALEA III, Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Caldwell-Titcomb, Celebrity-Series, Classical Music, David Hoose, Emanuel Ax, Exsultemus, Gil-Rose, Heinrich Christensen, James MacMillan, Makiko Hayashima, Marcus Thompson, Sequentia, Sir Colin David, The Boston Chamber Music Society, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Contata Singers, The Harlem Gospel Choir, The King's Chapel Choir, The Ludovico Ensemble, Ton Koopman

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