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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] of such magnitude as the one now projected must be conducted on business laws as strict as the laws of music itself. An orchestra is a larger and, when in incompetent hands, an unwieldy affair to manage. A number of concerts were given in London, but while the applause was liberal, the financial results were far from satisfactory. The performances given were three matinees at the Princess’ Theater, two concerts in Hanover square, two in Crosby Hall, and eight promenade concerts, together with numerous private entertainments which were often very enjoyable. The most memorable among these latter was a soiree given at the magnificent villa of the Messrs. Baring Brothers, where numerous celebrated operatic stars took part, including Grisi, Garcia, Alboni, Mario, and Tamburini. The invited guests were from the highest circle, and the new orchestra obtained a larger share of the applause. The Duke of Cambridge, himself an amateur […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:09:52
Texts Meet Tones: Origins and Meanings
[…] and found a four-day festival some years later. We hope that the Boston Text and Tone Festival in its first iteration, will provide time and space for our visions of community to become real. To this end, we have invited many wonderful artists–from a commissioned poet (Letta Neely) to pianists (Letizia Palimieri and JJ Penna) to singers (Alexis Peart, Felix Gygli, Daon Drisdom, Joanne Evans, James Demler, and Eric Rieger), to Boston-area conservatory students (Sam Crosby-Schmidt with L. Palmieri)–to participate in four consecutive days of music making. Our four concerts include core song repertoire like Schubert’s Winterreise and Fauré’s La bonne chanson as well as works by Shawn Okpebholo, Robert Schumann, Florence Price, Ruth Schonthal, and others to which we are happy to bring more attention. While the last three concerts are in the standard song-duo mold, the first concert features varied pairings of artists as well as entertaining explorations […]
2023-08-30 03:05:00
The Supernatural Season
Crosby Theatre, Santa Fe OperaPhoto: Robert Godwin, courtesy of Santa Fe OperaMy review of four of Santa Fe Opera's 2023 productions is posted at San Francisco Classical Voice. There are a ton of prior reviews out there, none of which I read before finishing my review. I'm extremely curious how they all felt about the season, particularly, Nico Muhly's new orchestration of Monteverdi's Orfeo and Netia Jones's production and direction of Pelléas et Mélisande. I liked Muhly's orchestration but didn't give it the weight that I suspect other reviewers did. It's a great, great opera that works with period or modern instruments, and this was a terrific production. I was half-sorry that Muhly didn't introduce some really weird instrumentation; his new orchestration is pretty tasteful.I found the Pelléas production confusing and physically cluttered, both in terms of the set and the direction, unnecessarily complicated. I had mixed feelings about Netia Jones's touring Curlew River, […]
2023-07-02 20:35:00
I should have gotten this out last month, when the Ojai Music Festival was live, but I did not - oh, well! The streams are still available. As usually, the programs are fabulous, and I wish Ojai were in almost any month but June, which is always packed in the SF area.The streams are all free! Here's the list of available concerts and repertory that Ojai circulated some time ago, but note that there might have been updates.Thursday, June 8 8:00pm | LIQUID BORDERS Libbey Bowl Rhiannon Giddens vocals | Kayhan Kalhor kamancheh | Attacca Quartet | Steven Schick percussion/director| red fish blue fish percussion Gabriela ORTIZ Liquid Borders Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2 Hob. III:82 Zakir HUSSAIN Pallavi (arr. Reena Esmail) Philip GLASS First Movement from String Quartet No. 3 (“Mishima”) Colin JACOBSEN Beloved do not let me be discouraged Geeshie WILEY Last Kind Words Rhiannon GIDDENS Lullaby David Crosby/Nathan SCHRAM Where We Are Not (arr. Nathan Schram) Caroline SHAW Stem and Root from The Evergreen John ADAMS Judah to Ocean, Rag the Bone from John’s Book of Alleged Dances SQUAREPUSHER Xetaka 1 Friday, June […]
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