REVIEW: Shadle's 'Dogtown Common' premieres at Rockport Chamber Music Festival
When a world premiere turns out to be a concert’s easiest piece to negotiate, you know the players have taken on some challenges.Saturday evening’s performance at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in...
View ArticleWeek 2 is a family affair at Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Collaboration and family are the buzzwords for the second week of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.Family pairings abound: Thursday’s sonata recital features pianist Heng-Jin Park and cellist Jonah...
View ArticleCelebrate 'My Sinatra' on Father’s Day
Cary Hoffman does not look like Frank Sinatra. But he sure sounds like him, from the voice to the intonation to the phrasing. Sinatra’s not around to do concerts anymore. But if you check out “My...
View ArticleMUSIC REVIEW: Mother-son duo bring skill and insight to Rockport Chamber...
Tackling angular, expressive and intense music by turns, pianist Heng-Jin Park and cellist Jonah Ellsworth presented a far-reaching sonata recital Thursday evening, June 8, in the Shalin Liu...
View ArticleROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Chameleon performs on Father's Day
When you go to a concert, you probably think you’re coming to hear the musicians. But maybe they’re coming to be with you."We have amazing artists in the Boston area," says Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s...
View ArticleComposer Philip Glass debuts partita at Peabody Essex Museum
Composer Philip Glass himself and cellist Matt Haimovitz come to Salem on Juen 22 for a concert of the composer’s music for cello. The program includes a world premiere, Glass’s Partita No. 2 for Solo...
View ArticleA life in poetry
The Rockport Chamber Music Festival certainly has brought a lot of Cape Ann to the Shalin Liu Performance Center stage this season. First, it was the world premiere of Charles Shadle’s piano trio...
View ArticleREVIEW: Escher String Quartet and Joyce Yang start at excellent at Rockport...
With a program where each work seemed to upstage the previous, the performance getting better and better in a crescendo of virtuosity, pianist Joyce Yang and the Escher String Quartet offered an...
View ArticleREVIEW: David Alpher brings world premiere to Rockport Chamber Music Festival
The final commission of artistic director David Deveau’s tenure at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival explored the simple verities of the natural world. Composer David Alpher, co-founder of the...
View ArticleBorrowing from the past
Musical thievery — plundering the past to create new works — is nothing new. Beethoven wrote variations on Mozart. Brahms did the same with Handel. Busoni practically made his living off Bach. So if...
View ArticleMOVIE REVIEW: Imaginative 'Okja' gives viewers lots to chew on
The story of a young girl on a mission to save her pet pig - and what a pig it is - is smart, daring, lavish and packed with surprises.
View Article'Days of Future Passed' with the Moody Blues July 10
The Moody Blues first played Boston almost a half-century ago, down in the cavernous room known as the Psychedelic Supermarket. They were promoting their then-new album "In Search of the Lost Chord."...
View ArticleBoston Camerata to perform 'Tristan & Iseult' at Rockport Chamber Music...
The answer is right out the window.The question is why the Boston Camerata will be performing “Tristan & Iseult: A Medieval Romance in Poetry and Music” July 8 at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Town: Rick Berlin goes the literary route with ‘The...
It’s not easy to keep track of the bands that singer-composer-pianist Rick Berlin has fronted since moving to Boston in 1970. Let’s see, there was Orchestra Luna, then Orchestra Luna 2, followed by...
View ArticleEvent supports jazz education on Cape Cod
The Provincetown Jazz Festival Fundraiser Reception and Concert will be held Monday, July 31 at 7:15 p.m. at the Riverway Restaurant, 1338 Route 28, South Yarmouth. Proceeds benefit JAZZ in the...
View ArticleLowell Folk Festival brings a world of sounds July 28-30
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the term "folk music" would conjure up a picture of somebody sitting down with an acoustic guitar and singing protest songs. That’s sure not what the...
View ArticleTwisted Pine brings new album to Passim Aug. 11
With the release of their self-titled debut album on Signature Sounds last month, the Boston-based bluegrass quartet Twisted Pine can now be heard at home and in your car, not just in the numerous...
View Article'Film Night' brings drama, adventure to bucolic Tanglewood
When a back ailment prevented conductor John Williams from leading the “Tanglewood on Parade” concert in Lenox two summers ago, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons stepped in and...
View ArticleMagic mixed with a dose of reality in ‘Finding Neverland’
BOSTON - The delightful musical “Finding Neverland” tells the tender story of how the creator of “Peter Pan” found the inspiration for his fantastical tale, about a boy who could fly and would never...
View ArticleWicked Local Reader Photo of the Day, 8-28-17
Check out Stage Presents and other great reader photos by following wickedlocalpix on Instagram. Your amazing image could be our next Wicked Local Reader Photo of the Day. Email pictures with captions...
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