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Mark Morris’s Double Bill of English Operas at Tanglewood: Britten’s Curlew River and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas 14 Aug 2013 | 04:56 am
The musical event I was most looking forward to all summer was the premiere of Mark Morris’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River (1964), the first and probably the most beautiful and moving ...
The Bridges of Madison County – World Premiere Musical at Williamstown Theatre Festival 14 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
Few musicals head to Broadway with the pedigree and promise of The Bridges of Madison County: Music by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre), book by Marsha Norman (To...
A Singer’s Notes 78: The Contraries 13 Aug 2013 | 04:08 am
The wise have shown us down the generations that beautiful spirits can hold two contrary ideas in the mind, carrying their weight and feeling their lightness. Through some kind of serendipity these la...
The Column and the Pedestal: Quartets by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, performed by the Borodin Quartet 7 Aug 2013 | 10:12 am
The string quartet medium and the classical style are almost synonymous. They fit each other so perfectly that they appear to be two sides of the same coin, complementary aspects of the same musical i...
More on Harbison’s Gatsby 2 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
My colleagues, Lloyd Schwartz and Larry Wallach, have already written extensively about Emmanuel Music's performance of John Harbison's third opera, The Great Gatsby, both at Jordan Hall and at Tangle...
Tanglewood Tales: Jurowski and Koenigs Tell the Whole Story 31 Jul 2013 | 04:34 am
It was James Levine’s many cancelations that most directly led to his (perhaps forced) resignation as the Boston Symphony Orchestra music director in the spring of 2011. But Levine has no monopoly on ...
Mid-century Yin and Yang: The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra plays Britten and Shostakovich 24 Jul 2013 | 02:33 am
Pairing Britten (b. 1913) with Shostakovich (b. 1906) makes for good programming with lots of parallels and contrasts. Both composers were ‘conservatives’ who, by the 1950’s, stood alone at the pinnac...
Implosion at Tanglewood: Nelsons, Eschenbach, and Furlanetto cancel. 23 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
Yesterday BSO officials announced the dismaying news that Andris Nelsons, the new Music Director of the BSO, suffered a concussion last weekend as a result of a collision with a door at his home near ...
A Singer’s Notes 77: Music Theatre Everywhere 23 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
I stand in awe of the combination of skills needed to perform the American musical well. While a voice which is less than perfect may be usable, even good, the acting must be convincing, and the danci...
A Singer’s Notes 76: Fellows Rule 23 Jul 2013 | 03:15 am
Well do I remember my first few days as a Tanglewood Fellow. The pace of it. Already in the first concert there were brilliant things from the 2013 Tanglewood Music Center. Gabriel Campos Zamora's cla...
