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...marks the beginning of a 7-year cycle devoted to Schubert. Many of Boston's most revered classical music figures have been anxious to become involved with Emmanuel: composer John Harbison, Seiji Ozawa, the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Christopher Hog-wood, the director of the Handel & Haydn Society, regularly serve as guest conductors...
Faithful to what she describes as her philosophy of "fusion-style," Ms. Robison dared to couple Vivaldi's florid 1725 orchestration with booming, modern instruments and techniques. She described many contemporary instrumentalists as drooling over and fantasizing about playing early pieces by the likes of Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian...
Among the upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
...inspirational teacher of a Burke's Peerage of younger pianists, he originated master classes (and, though his own means were slight, he never accepted a fee). Moreover, it was Liszt, frequently decorated by nobles and heads of state, who broke down the class barriers that had earlier relegated Haydn and Mozart to the status of servants...
...group played a compendium of works from this year's repertoire: Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn, the first part of Stravinsky's Petrouchka, and the third and fourth movements of Brahms' Symphony Number 2 in D Major...