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Concert Review: Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adés

With “In Seven Days,” Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the past, even as he freely refers to archaic compositional forms.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: In Seven Days, Kirill Gerstein, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Ades

Classical Concert Review: Emmanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden at Symphony Hall

To judge from the all-around energetic playing of the BSO, it seems conductor Jaap van Zweden has struck a good rapport with the players and I, for one, look forward to hearing more from him in coming seasons.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Emmanuel Ax, Jaap van Zweden, The Boston Symphony Orchestra

Classical Music Review: A Mixed Score for BSO’s “UnderScore Friday”

It’s very difficult to lure new audiences into the concert hall in most parts of the United States, hard to find useful introductions to pieces of classical music and hard to judge from the reaction of UnderScore concertgoers whether they were pleased with their experience. I applaud the BSO’s initiative. UnderScore Friday. Presented by the […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured Tagged: Culture Vulture, Singles, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, UnderScore, UnderScoreFriday

Classical Music Sampler: December 2009

By Caldwell Titcomb Dec. 1: The Tufts Early Music Ensemble, including singers and instrumentalists, will present a free concert of secular music by the great 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay and his contemporaries, whom we rarely get to hear in live performance. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, 8 p.m.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions Tagged: Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Caldwell-Titcomb, Harvard Unversity Choir, Longy School of Music, The Boston Camerata, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Boston University Symphony Orchestra, The Chiara Quartet, The Emerson Quartet, The international Contemporary Ensemble, The Tufts Early Music Ensemble, The-New-England-Conservatory

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