Trouble in Paradise as Andris Nelsons Arrives at Tanglewood Amidst Protests
“(A) Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gerturde Stein, 1913 As awkward as the first Boston Symphony concert at Tanglewood felt, things got ratcheted up […]
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More Bellyaching in Boston over Andris Nelsons
I’ve been overseas for the past two weeks, but apparently folks are still up in arms about Andris Nelsons’ dismissal from the Boston Symphony three weeks ago. Reports are that
A Boston Tea Party: Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Part Ways
I, like most people who follow classical music, was floored by the news last Friday that Andris Nelsons, music director of the Boston Symphony since 2014, was being dismissed at
The Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall with Andris Nelsons
Throughout my conversation with Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago, there was one institution which seemed to loom over eveything we discussed: the Vienna Philharmonic, where Honeck
What Price Glory? A Word on Music Directors
“Conducting has become the profession of a traveling salesman… A conductor has to stay put to educate an orchestra.” – William Steinberg (1899-1978) former music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony
A Weekend of New (and not so new) Music at Tanglewood
LENOX, MA – One of the things that’s most satisfying about Tanglewood, the longtime summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is that as the day-to-day world convulses with the
Symphonies, Suites and Götterdämmerung: A Weekend at Tanglewood
by Peter Matthews "It's not the lawn, it's not the great old pines. It's not the blue skies, or sudden thunderstorms, or the mountains. All that is wonderful…But, it's the
Boston Symphony Orchestra Brings Opera Back to Carnegie Hall
by Pete Matthews While I will always and forever cherish my summers seeing the Boston Symphony Orchestra up in their summer home at Tanglewood, it's always a treat (not to
Back to the Berkshires: the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
by Pete Matthews "Music is one of the most important gifts we've been given from nature. It's all out there: all we need to do is organize the sound sources,