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...available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $12 general admission. (ABW)Sunday, Nov. 6Wyclef Jean and The Perceptionists. Ha ha. Just kidding. (BBC)Hadyn: Mass in Time of War. Masterworks Chorale performs one of Hadyn’s powerful anthems led by guest conductor David Hodgkins. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, $39/28/18 with $3 discount for WGBH members, WCRB Classical Advantage, and groups of 10 or more. (LAM)The Tiger Lillies and The Grindhouse Marionettes. The Tiger Lillies team up with The Grindhouse Marionettes...
...truer words could have been spoken than these by conductor Benjamin Zander, after the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s (BPO) performance Friday night in Sander’s Theater, part of the BPO “Discovery Series...
...providing the general education that ought to come with a Harvard degree, and none of us will see the new program before we receive that degree, the College needs to come up with a contingency plan. It’s as if the College is a train conductor who receives word that the rail bridge up ahead has collapsed, but rather than switching tracks, decides to ride full-speed-ahead over the edge, warning other trains by radio on the way down into the fiery abyss. Well, maybe not exactly like that, but something like that anyway...
When I slept through successive visits to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, I never once blamed the music or conductor to be “sordid,” “tedious,” “egotistic,” “uninspired,” or any of the myriad missives that the author uses against the festival. Instead, I admitted that I could not just appreciate the music. Such an admission is beneath the author, who proceeds with his snide remarks: incompetent journalists, “tough locals,” thieving Rastafarians...
...then the Baltimore Symphony came calling. Alsop was seen as new blood and a new direction: she's only 48, young for a conductor at this level. She's funny and approachable--she has a habit of chatting informally to audiences from the podium--and she has been known to moonlight (on the violin) with a swing band. She can handle the warhorses of the repertoire--she just recorded Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with the London Philharmonic--but she also champions living American composers like Philip Glass. She can even be heard, on occasion, to utter the phrase way cool...