• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Scott Metcalfe

Listening During Covid, Part 14: Pleasures and Treasures

Music of Machaut, the teenaged Mozart, and three vibrant American composers, plus a remarkable book about Charles Ives and his works.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Apollo Chamber Players, Azica, Blue Heron, Charles Ives, Ferdinand Hérold, Guillaume de Machaut, Jennifer Higdon, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, Marie-Ève Munge, MoonStrike, Pierre Jalbert, Remède de Fortune, Scott Metcalfe

Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron

I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Blue Heron vocal group, Old South Church, Scott Metcalfe

Concert Review: Genius Finally Getting its Proper Due — Blue Heron’s “Ockeghem@600”

The first in what is surely going to be Blue Heron’s memorable series of testaments to the neglected brilliance of composer Johannes Ockeghem.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Binchois & Du Fay, Blue Heron, Johannes Ockeghem, Ockeghem, Ockeghem@600, Scott Metcalfe, Sean Gallagher

Fuse Concert Review: The Calming Artistry of Blue Heron

Simply put, Blue Heron is one of the best perks of concertgoing in 21st century Boston.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe

Fuse Concert Review: Blue Heron, A Superbly Classy Renaissance Choir

Blue Heron

Blue Heron explores a rarely performed repertoire with a choir made up of sensational soloists.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Blue Heron, Daniela Tosic, David McFerrin, Gerrod Pagenkopf, Jason McStoots, Mark Sprinkle, Martin Near, Michael Barrett, Owen McIntosh, Pamela Dellal, Paul Guttry, Scott Metcalfe

Classical Music Review: Green Mountain Project — Monteverdi at his most Audacious

Green Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Claudio Monteverdi, Green Mountain Project, Jolle Greenleaf, Julie Andrijeski, Scott Metcalfe, Vespers of 1610

Classical Music Review: The Sound of Blue Heron — Pleasure Aplenty

Several merits distinguish Blue Heron’s concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Blue Heron, Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy, Scott Metcalfe

Concert Review: The Song of Songs and Songs of Love in Sixteenth-century Spain

Song of Songs

The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with “a marvelously expansive concept of the divine” in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Blue Heron, Francisco Guerrero, Nicolas Gombert, Scott Metcalfe, Sebastian de Vivanco, Song of Songs, Tomás Luis de Victoria

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springste... posted on March 22, 2023
  • Concert Review: Goose Earns Its Indie-Groove Wings Goose has seen its stock in the jam-band world soar at... posted on March 26, 2023
  • Book Review: “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History” Even more impressive than the sheer amount of raw knowl... posted on March 14, 2023
  • Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Wolfe and Górecki Brimming with edge-of-seat intensity and fist-waving th... posted on March 17, 2023
  • Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the pa... posted on March 10, 2023

Social

Follow us:

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2023 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz