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...They talked lots about the music event, but they didn’t talk a lot about Bong-Ihn,” he said in an interview from South Korea, “because Bong-Ihn came from America, and they didn’t want to talk about America...
...running mate. Or at least it should do all of this.But in Opera Boston’s underwhelming new production, playing Oct. 17-21 at Boston’s opulently beautiful Cutler Majestic Theatre, the orchestra fails to transmit the Romantic power of Weber’s music. The musicians, under the baton of Gil Rose, played with confounding restraint, not giving the fortissimo passages of the score their due fortitude. In the final minute of the overture, when the strings should be a band of sprinting hunters, they were instead a flock of pigeons flying languidly overhead. The absurd...
...poverty relief, including selling locally made beads and going on service trips to Africa. The rally was sponsored by the Youth Alliance For Leadership and Development in Africa at Harvard and the Millennium Campus Network—an organization composed of students at Harvard, the Berklee College of Music, Brandeis, Boston University, MIT, and Tufts. Since MCN was founded last fall, the organization has hosted a conference attended by over 1,700 students, along with a summer service trip to Nicaragua. Roxanne N. Bischoff, a Brandeis sophomore, said she that her peers at the “Stand Up?...
This year marks the 128th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), making it one of the oldest and most celebrated symphonies in the United States. In celebration of the anniversary, James Levine, the BSO’s Music Director since 2003, has commissioned several works to world premiere with the BSO. On Friday afternoon, he led the orchestra through Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,” and Robert Schumann?...
...Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), led by Benjamin Zander, stirred the Sanders Theatre crowd Wednesday night with an inconsistent but lively and competent performance of works by Bartók, Saint-Saëns, and Dvorak, demonstrating the classical music world’s continuing effort to resist the genre’s arguable decline.The concert—which was the BPO’s first of the season—was part of the “Discovery Series,” a group of concerts designed to broaden classical music’s audience. The premise of the series...