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Some people tend to dislike contemporary classical music even more than traditional classical music, calling it “ugly noise,” but BMOP actively tries to dispel this stereotype by uniting “composers and audiences in a shared concert experience.” Since its creation in 1966, BMOP has collaborated with many of the most famous and well-respected composers of the modern age, including two-time Oscar nominee Phillip Glass...
...academic year, the BSO performs “serious” classical works, featuring soloists and guest conductors. Tickets are cheap for college students. Student rush tickets are available, and “college cards” can be purchased for an entire season. $25 buys passes to 14 concerts free of charge, which comes out to about $1.79 per concert. That’s roughly one-fifth the cost of a movie ticket...
Sunday, Feb. 27. WUMB presents An Evening With Paul Brady. Celtic music concert. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater. Tickets $20-30. Tickets available through Harvard Box Office...
Sunday, Feb. 27. Arcadian Winds Concert. Music by Ravel, Pinkham, Hetu, and d’Rivera. 5 p.m. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. Call (617) 496-2222 for tickets...
That playful tone wasn’t the only thing that made him shine through as a theatrical presence. Perhaps the most thrillingly strange aspect of Tuesday’s concert, and of most of Meloy’s recorded work with the Decemberists, is how utterly and astonishingly genuine he sounds when he croons out those elegant strings of lies about Manchurian secret agents and deceased chimney-sweeps. In a sense, he’s a member of a rare and dying breed of musicians—those who can act. Those who can create a character wholly different...