2019 NYC Summer Music Preview
It's up in the mid-80's today in NYC, which has got me thinking about my favorite time of year: summer, when all sorts of amazing music heads outdoors. In addition […]
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Summer 2018 Music Preview
Hard to believe it's already June, and while this year's Gov Ball has already come and gone, the music is just starting to move to the great outdoors. Below is
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Birds and Music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Tanglewood
LENOX, MA – In the summer of 1949, Aaron Copland invited Olivier Messiaen, who at that time was little-known in the U.S., to be a composer-in-residence at Tanglewood, which was just then
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A Berkshires Bounty: Opening Weekend at Tanglewood
LENOX, MA – I've been going to Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's longtime home in the Berkshires, almost every summer now for the past two-and-a-half decades. Those that have been to
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Occasionally, I use this space to reflect on the passing of a notable musician or composer, someone whose contributions deserve to be remembered long after they're gone. Today, I want to
Tanglewood 2016: Towards the Future
LENOX, MA - It's been eighty years now since the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave it's first concerts in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts and, aside from a four-year hiatus during
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Tanglewood 2013: U.S. Premiere of George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin”
"With music I can open a heart/as easily as you can open a door/and reach right in." — Into the Little Hill LENOX, MA — Over the past few years, some
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Tanglewood 2013: Festival of Contemporary Music and Boston Symphony Orchestra
LENOX, MA — Last Saturday, I made the first of my two visits to Tanglewood over the weekend, arriving at Ozawa Hall just in time for the prelude concert prior to
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Boston Symphony Performs “Die Walküre” at Tanglewood
LENOX, MA — When James Levine became music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2005, his impact on the orchestra was felt almost immediately with the introduction of operatic repertoire,
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