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...said he felt pressure to represent South Korean musicians to the North Korean orchestra as well as possible. At their first rehearsal, the day after his arrival, Koh said, the North Korean conductor insisted on three run-throughs of the concerto...
...felt like I was playing with the Berlin Philharmonic because the orchestra was so incredible,” Koh said...
...makes one understand why John McCain would choose a backwoods Alaskan huntress as his 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...
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...