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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-26 04:28:39
Cantata Singers is among several Boston-based ensembles to have undertaken J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) this season, with even more performances to come. This epidemic has resulted in a new type of marathoner, one who excitedly discusses the number of performances he has heard prior to current one while comparing notes about those previous outings. And why not? The monumental Mass is Bach’s opus ultimum—at once a compendium of his life as a church musician, a summary of his musical style, and a deeply-felt devotional permeated with Lutheran symbolism. This season’s opportunity to hear, compare, and contrast different versions is extraordinary. Friday’s Cantata Singers’ Jordan Hall traversal of Bach’s great Mass with understanding and intelligence, will certainly rank among the loftiest examples. * Bach’s Mass can be roughly divided into four independent parts that he composed throughout his lifetime; they were performed together for the first […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-17 00:01:05
Droit du seigneur…OMG The Harvard College Opera Society , formerly the Dunster House Opera Society, began 25 years as the University’s premier undergraduate company. HCO now presents one full-length opera each February with an entirely-undergraduate cast and production team. This year’s Le Nozze di Figaro features over 50 students from Harvard College, Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. According to stage director Joule Voelz, “Our 25th-Anniversary production attempts to capture the timeless quality of Mozart’s musical exploration of love and human weakness. In the vaguely 18th-century Rene Magritte-inspired palace of Count Almaviva, our familiar cast of characters meet to play out a day of folly. Members of our eclectic ensemble all sport distinctive quirks: Marcellina an aging flapper, Basilio a carnival barker, and more. It’s not a period piece, but rather an anti-period piece that aims to suspend disbelief for the sake […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-03-29 19:25:20
Remembering Matthew’s Passion
The “fusion-oratorio” Considering Matthew Shepard tells the story of the infamous 1998 murder and its aftermath. Conceived as a 21st-century oratorio-passion, Craig Hella Johnson ,’s work sets texts by Lesléa Newman, Hafiz, Hildegard von Bingen, Rabindranath Tagore, W.S. Mervin, Blake, Rumi, Dante, and others in a variety of musical styles. On April 2nd at 8pm in Sanders Theater, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Glee Club, and Radcliffe Choral Society will present the East Coast premiere under the Grammy Award-winning conductor/composer. For a postconcert conversation with the audience, poet and lyricist Lesléa Newman (author of Heather Has Two Mommies among other works) will join Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation , Johnson, and Harvard professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy. Michael McGaghie, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Macalester College, will give the preconcert talk at 7pm. The project is sponsored by the Open Gate: A […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-12-08 14:53:26
Traditions Adapted In Collegium’s Messiah
Bewigged Handel The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum rang in the University’s holiday season with a distinguished, richly contextualized Messiah on Friday evening at Sanders Memorial Theater in Cambridge. Featuring introductory remarks by Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knapfel Professor of Music at Harvard, the performance sought to recreate the excitement of the work’s 1742 Dublin premiere while shortening the work to highlight its most seasonally appropriate passages, and succeeded in embodying tradition in its finest and most expansive sense. Hearing the piece introduced by the unfailingly engaging author of First Nights gave particular pleasure. I expected expertise and entertainment in equal measure (Kelly’s remarkable Capturing Music collaboration with Blue Heron last season will live long in my memory), and was not disappointed. In addition to scholarly authority, Kelly brought fun to the proceedings, his relaxed style appealing to expert and novice alike. He described the economic benefits of presenting oratorio […]
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