Saturday, March 20, 2010

BSO — 2010/03/19-20: Review — 2010/03/25-27; -04/1-3: Preview

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Listen if you can to this evening's (Boston Time) BSO concert on WCRB . It starts at 8:00 with Mendelssohn's Overture and Incidental...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Leonard Warren †March 4, 1960

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The post-Met program on WHRB reminded me that last Thursday, March 4, was the 50th anniversary of the death of the American baritone Leonard...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Gunther Schuller

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On Wednesday evening, Gunther Schuller and the Borromeo String Quartet teamed up for a lecture/concert at the Harvard Musical Association. T...
Friday, February 19, 2010

BSO — 2010/02/18: Review — 2010/02/20: Preview

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I was at the BSO concert Thursday evening. It was magnificent. They played Beethoven's 6th Symphony, "Pastorale" before the in...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

BSO — 2010/01/09, 16, 23

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With the changes in ownership (WGBH bought WCRB and shifted its classical programming to the already all-classical WCRB), WGBH has dropped i...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Beethoven/BSO, January 3, 2010; Belated Bach

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     I just got the program guide for next month's offerings on WGBH and WCRB, and I see that WCRB's Sunday Concert at 3:00 p.m. Bos...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Messiah

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     Yesterday (Sunday December 6) I went to the Handel and Haydn Society's performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Symphony...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Radio (& Internet Streaming?) Changes

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     Interesting (to me, anyway) stuff is happening in the Boston classical music broadcast scene. WCRB, the commercial, all classical stati...
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Thanksgiving

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     As mentioned on my other blog, in honor of Thanksgiving Day, here are videos of a performance of the ancient hymn of thanksgiving, ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

BSO — 2009/11/20-21

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     Even as I write the BSO is performing Debeussy's "Nocturnes" for Orchestra, under the baton of Bernard Haitink. This is t...