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 […]
Saint-Saens
“The Carnival of the Animals” at the Miller Theatre
by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano.) The Carnival of the Animals, a fanciful suite of brief musical portraits of different animals, was composed in 1886 by Camille Saint-Saens
“Orientalism in France” with the American Symphony Orchestra
By Caleb Easterly (Photo: Carnegie Hall) The American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, has become known for digging up obscure musical treasures and designing concerts around a theme. On
Ray Chen at Le Poisson Rouge
By Caleb Easterly The rising star violinist Ray Chen Chen bounded onto the stage Tuesday night at Le Poisson Rouge, addressing the audience with a polite British accent and cracking a couple