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Samuel Barber

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Hand of Bridge, Aaron-Copland, Arthur Farwell, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Candide, Carrie Jacobs-Bonds, Florence Price, Irina Meachem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kurt-Weill, Leonard Bernstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Lucas Meachem, Medea, Ralph Locke, Ricky Ian Gordon, Rubicon RCD, Samuel Barber, Shall We Gather, Stephen Foster, William Grant Still

Rethinking the Repertoire #13 – Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto

Samuel Barber: one of the most individual and distinguished voices to emerge in Europe or America during the 20th century.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Piano Concerto, Samuel Barber

Classical Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Matter of Faulty Chemistry

While the BSO’s inventive program this week had the potential to plumb the heights and depths of human experience, Saturday’s performance generally lacked the necessary conviction, purpose, and mystery required to do so.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carl Maria von Weber, Garrick Ohlsson, Myung-Whun Chung, Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber

Classical Music Sampler: April 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb April 1: Ursula Oppens, long a champion of contemporary music (and a 1965 honors graduate of Harvard), presents a free piano recital under the auspices of the Blodgett Distinguished Artists Series. The program includes John Corigliano’s “Winging It,” William Bolcom’s “Ballade,” Tobias Picker’s “Three Nocturnes,” the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s “Oros,” […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Opera Tagged: “I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Conservatory’s Piano Masters Series, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Caldwell-Titcomb, Gustavo-Dudamel, Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Heinrich Schütz, Hugh-Wolff, Idomeneo, Jameson Marvin, John Harbison, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, M.I.T-Chamber-Chorus, MIT Symphony Orchestra, NEC Philharmonia, Opera Boston, Radcliffe Choral Society, Robert Kyr, Robert Levin, Samuel Barber, SSt. Lawrence String Quartet, The-New-England-Conservatory, Triple Helix Piano Trio, Ursula Oppens, Vincenzo Bellini, Ya-Fei Chuang

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