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2024-04-23 17:27:45
The upcoming Café Ludwig program on May 5, sponsored by Dot & Rick Nelson, presents a poignant exploration of the human spirit’s capacity to transcend adversity through artistic expression.
2024-03-29 14:23:10
Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson join the singer’s posse for a record ranging from hoedown to psychedelic rock
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
On a Saturday evening some 70 years ago I heard the Boston Symphony Orchestra live for the first time. Melville Smith, then director of the Longy School, had given me two tickets he couldn’t use. Charles Munch conducted. Before the intermission came Honegger’s Symphony no. 1; the program notes mentioned harmony that “trends toward C major,” which amused me and my 9th-grade classmate George Nelson — it must have meant that the symphony was “modern.” After the intermission we heard Schubert’s “Great” Symphony in C Major, a work I had never heard before, but George knew it well. “This symphony begins with a solo horn,” he said. (Actually it turned out to be two in unison.) I was deeply impressed by the experience, and especially by the slow movement, but never imagined that I would write a book about this symphony a few years later (2011). Eventually I began to go […]
2024-01-26 15:00:27
John Nelson conducts Michael Spyres and Joyce DiDonato in a live broadcast from Strasbourg
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