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...Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has a venerable tradition of performing the modern classical music of the age. Its various conductors throughout its 121-year history have often promoted the display of new and occasionally controversial music. Although the music performed during the March 2 concert is not new in our time, it still retains the innovative flavor of much of the 20th century repertoire. The concert program skillfully integrated different genres and time periods in classical music, consisting of Stravinsky, Messiaen and Beethoven. All were directed by German guest conductor Ingo Metzmacher...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra’s rendition was of the highest quality. Metzmacher brings the orchestra through the anger and fear of the underworld to a violent earthly death with expert ease and precision. The piece begins appropriately with a Lento Sostenuto as Orpheus weeps by the coffin of Eurydice; the orchestra then speeds up as Orpheus picks up his lyre and begins to dance. The dissonance of the underground becomes agitated as the Furies try to destroy Orpheus, but they are stilled as the orchestra produces the sonorous sounds of his lyre. In the finale, Orpheus dies amidst...
...Asia bureau chief for Billboard magazine. In the hands of a group like bond, a classical piece sounds like a palatable pop song that won't frighten away the folks while pulling in the kids. "It makes the music accessible," says Jamie Lee, music manager for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra...
When McFerrin was underpinned by some of the campus’ musical groups, he revealed a different shade of his vocal talent. Instead of trying to imitate an entire strings section, he let the Baroque Chamber Orchestra assume that position in the evening’s first act, and occupied the position of imitating solo violinist, enlisting cellist Kate Bennet in an ethereally beautiful, if entirely unconventional duet...
...Strains of the socialist “Internationale” well up from an erstwhile-unnoticed orchestra...