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Many of us today rue the general decline in musical culture and literacy. In a small way we believe we are reversing that trend with this online virtual journal and blog. If you have looked in the Boston Globe or the late Boston Phoenix calendars for guidance on what concert to attend, or looked in those papers for a review of a concert you have attended, you will no doubt share our frustration. Although what coverage there is in these papers is estimable, there is not enough of it. Due to limitations of staff and ink, probably fewer than 10 percent of the area’s concerts are reviewed and probably fewer than one half are listed.
Our aim with The Boston Musical Intelligencer is to list every classical music concert in greater Boston (within Route 128) for the regular season, and in summer to expand coverage to include venues throughout New England. We also review as many concerts as possible, especially those our editors deem most unjustly neglected by the print media. Our reviewers are drawn from Boston’s most distinguished musicians, composers, music academics and musically literate listeners. Reviews and articles are professionally edited before publication. We invite participation from readers in our moderated but un-edited comment area. Source
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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 unbridled lovefest including hoots and screams for piano-soloist Seong-Jin Cho soloist and long upright cheers for Andris Nelsons.
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Chung Cheng photo Those who braved the raging nor’easter for the first of this year’s Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concerts were amply rewarded, as the fully collaborative concert by the accomplished 13-year partners violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang, positively enchanted. Arvo Pärt’s crafted one of his most revered works, Spiegel im Spiegel, with intention and mathematic edge, yet it’s effect is mystical.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
Scott Nickrenz in 1976 Thanks to support from the family and friends of its late curator, the avuncular yet discerning impresario Scott Nickrenz , Music at the Gardner, has launched, commencing this past Sunday, an annual Scott Nickrenz Concert of chamber music at the museum’s Calderwood Hall.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
Engraved device from a letter of Brahms The Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) opened its 44th season Sunday at Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge on Sunday. Three small ensembles, comprising five players in total, delivered a program that showcased their exquisite, formidable talent. The afternoon began with Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11, the “Gassenhauer,” which means “catchy tune,” and catchy it was.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
In 1900 all of America was crazy for pianos, and no place did more to fuel the madness than Boston. Any resident with enough curiosity and stamina could examine the wares of 40 different makers without leaving the city limits. New York had Steinway, Baltimore had Knabe, but only Boston could claim three top names of the day: Mason & Hamlin, Chickering, and the Franz Liszt-approved Hallet & Davis. By 1930 it was all over but the bankruptcy filings.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
The Allemanian military has forbidden the color red to the Helvetian peasants (as well, apparently, as any colors whatsoever for those good guys) in the dark and dangerous Boston Lyric Opera production of Rossini’s William Tell now playing at the Colonial Theater. [Read the synopsis HERE]. Nor did the military government permit mountains and valleys, boats on a lake, elegantly bucolic ballets, or much sunshine or spectacle until the last act.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
Composer Elena Firsova with Andris Nelsons after BSO world premiere of Prolog (Hilary Scott photo) The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s second weekend brought two pieces that wouldn’t seem to have much in common. Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina conceived Prolog as a prequel to her The Wrath of God, but she died before finishing the work.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
The manuscripts of 12 of the works on this Sarasa Ensemble’s “Schrank (Cabinet) II, at the Friends Meeting House on Saturday, survived a 1760 war by being locked in a cabinet (designated Schrank II) in Dresden, Germany—and again survived Dresden’s firebombing in World War II.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
His energized, engaged, and romantic account of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with the BB Period Orchestra and Chorus fully justified the high level of anticipation for the eminent French conductor Marc Minkowski’s debut as music director of Boston Baroque. On Sunday afternoon, the man’s charmingly genial French manner, thankfully devoid of the often-concomitant restraint, emboldened the players and singers to let loose quite viscerally. And yes, we mean a romantic account.
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater Boston
Boston Lyric Opera is about to revive Rossini’s William Tell an irresistible French-language rarity (libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play Wilhelm Tell) at the Colonial Theater for four performances between September 25th and October 4th.