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Even if you hate classical music to death for its staid canonical values that place a tradition on feigned understanding of expressive abstraction, or even if soloists who reach levels of technical sophistication matched only by the complete void of emotion don't float your boat, well, here's a...
You thought encore performances only occurred at rock concerts, where the screams and chants of die-hard groupies eventually convince the stars to return to the stage. Despite a definitive absence of screaming and chanting in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory (NEC) on Sunday, March 1, the Berlin...
As a world-class orchestra that has been performing for a little more than three decades, the Berlin Symphony was directed on Sunday by Joseph Silverstein, who currently heads the Utah Symphony. An unusually liberal expression of enthusiasm in the conductor was immediately apparent; his smiles were a welcome divergence...
St. Anthony's Chorale--the thematic foundation for the eight variations of Brahms' composition--was introduced with a regal cadence perfectly suited to the gilded atmosphere of the concert hall. Sometimes called Variations on Saint Anthony's Chorale, the piece suffers from an identity crisis, although the crisis involves the...
Following a 20 minute intermission, the orchestra plunged directly into what would have been the final piece of its program, Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, "Spring." Here the layering of textures is much deeper than in Brahms' work, with a fanfare from the trumpets heralding the...