After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of ...
Lisbon is perhaps not the first name to enter one’s mind in cataloguing chief European musical cities. Nevertheless, it boasts a somewhat hidden secret asset that we happened upon during a recent trip ...
After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of Boston will give the Boston premiere of John Eccles hit Restoration rarity ...
Caroline Shaw, violin and voice, and Andrew Yee, cello, explored “...intersections between sound, composition, and physical landscapes” in “ArtsThursday.” ...
Jeffrey Gantz has a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. He worked at the Boston Phoenix for 33 years, 20 of them as arts editor.
Musicologist and composer Mark DeVoto is an expert in early 20th-century music. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967), he is professor emeritus of music at Tufts ...
The Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) opened its 44 th season Sunday at Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge on Sunday. Three small ensembles, comprising five players in total, ...
As location is to real estate, so provenance is to objects. Think Einstein’s violin, “no Stradivarius” according to Strings Magazine, which sold at auction in 2018 for $516,500. But what if you ...
The Handel & Haydn Society coupled the Requiem Mass settings of Michael Haydn (1737-1806), MH 155 with Mozart’s K. 626 at Symphony Hall last weekend to open its 210 th season. Michael Haydn’s music ...
Cho acknowledges the full house (Hilary Scott photo) Nelsons thanked supporters last week (audience member photo) Completely packed with a young-trending audience, Symphony Hall erupted into an ...
There’s a lot of information online about the history of the monthly Schwann Catalog, which started out as a listing of classical records. We now refer to “vinyl” when we’re talking about LPs, but ...