24
Aug
Sound and Fury
Violin concerti at Tanglewood and a new album for bassoon and bassoon and bassoon and...
7 min read
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10
Aug
Xenoatmospherics
Poems about the Holocaust, air from another planet, and one miraculous cricket.
10 min read
06
Aug
The Noise Point
Come for the electric guitars, stay for the ecstatic minimalism — LOUD Weekend descends on Mass MoCA!
7 min read
29
Jul
The Big Tapestry
Micropolyphony, electronic cello manipulation, pianos played with ping-pong balls — it's the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music!
14 min read
13
Jul
Greening
A world premiere at Tanglewood and Schumann in a synagogue — summer festivals are here!
8 min read
29
Jun
Cello Upside-Down Cake
An evening of unconventional cello music, ranging from Appalachian fiddle tunes to alt-rock quartets and elecro-acoustic washes of noise.
6 min read
15
Jun
How to Contain the World
It’s summer, and that means it’s beach read season, and what says beach read like a dense academic treatise on some of the thorniest and most brobdingnagian works in the standard repertoire?
15 min read
01
Jun
Of Cardinals and Coups
Five world premieres, one local play, and a preview of upcoming summer festival offerings!
7 min read
18
May
Up All Night (to Get Jesus)
I’ve heard people say there isn’t much Rachmaninov in the Vigil; it may not have the pyrotechnics of his piano concerti, but the variety he pulls out of this slight palette testifies to his compositional skill.
5 min read
20
Apr
Marseille Memories
In a moment when our government seems to be doing all it can to sever ties of international solidarity, it’s reassuring to be reminded that there are many working to strengthen those ties.
6 min read