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Sunday, April 17. Boston Conservatory Orchestra presents “Bolcom, Sibelius.” Bruce Hangen, conductor. Program includes Bolcom, Symphony No. 4:1 and Sibelius, Symphony No. 2. 2 p.m., Sanders Theatre. $12; students, senior citizens $5. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...they hummed along, the two seemed little bothered by the departure of the original songwriting duo of Arnold Weinstein and William Bolcom, whom they quickly replaced with Academy Award-winning composer Alan Mencken (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) and Tony Award-winning lyricist (and Harvard Law School grad) David Zippel (City of Angels...
...Lazy" (1924), Joan Morris and William Bolcom, on "Blue Skies: Songs by Irving Berlin" (recorded 1985, released 1990). Mezzo-soprano Morris and pianist Bolcom, those most joyful archivists of antique pop, turn this ode to indolence into a statement on the ecstasy of doin' nothin'. A classical classic...
...there's more to View than switchblades and red sauce. Bolcom has refracted Miller's '50s angst through the prism of an unlikely source: Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes, in which a deeply alienated antihero confronts a band of small-minded English villagers who demand his conformity or his life. Incapable of sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas...
...while View is sprinkled with pop (including a doo-wop quartet and a Puccinified version of Paper Doll), Bolcom has succeeded in smelting many disparate styles into a tightly unified idiom all his own. There are times when the openhearted lyricism of a Leonard Bernstein would have been welcome, but the lean, laconic score keeps the action moving, lending Miller's kitchen-table naturalism a freshening touch of poetry. Add in Josephson's star-quality performance as Eddie, the exemplary staging of Frank Galati (who directed Broadway's Ragtime) and Santo Loquasto's angular set--the Brooklyn Bridge as painted...