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2024-03-30 03:02:00
New York Philharmonic. Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Joseph Alessi, trombone. March 21, 2024.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat AA118, $70).At the conclusion of the concert. Notice only "traditional" instruments were used in the Scottish Symphony - not even a harp.ProgramTo See the Sky: an exegesis for orchestra (2023) by Joel Thompson (b. 1988).Trombone Concerto: Three Muses in Video Game (2021) by Tan Dun (b. 1957).Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, Scottish (1840-42) by Mendelssohn (1809-47).I don't know who "estimates" how long a concert is, but 1:30 minutes is way off the mark. The three pieces along add to 80 minutes, throw in a 20- to 30-minute intermission and we are close to two hours. The concert concluded at 9:24 pm.It is difficult to understand how these three pieces fit together as a program. Joel Thompson is in his 30s, still in school (getting a doctorate at Yale). And I suppose he is known among a lot of people in the music composition world, […]
2024-03-27 03:00:19
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; March 19, 2024—The Met has revived Bartlett Sher’s 1967 production of Gounod’s R&J hot on the heels of its new production of La forza del destino, and it has two hits on its hands. Everyone seems to agree that “Forza” is a problematic work–too many scene and locale changes, […]
2024-03-25 15:26:57
Susan Graham will lead a four-performance run of A Little Night Music at Lincoln Center in June. The post appeared first on parterre box.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
Boston area favorite-son composer Matthew Aucoin reached a pinnacle of recognition in November of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera, where his opera Eurydice (book and libretto by Sarah Ruhl) vividly and artfully retold the Orpheus-plus myth from the tragedienne’s perspective. The underworld has never since been the same. “It’s not surprising that a tale about the greatest musician in history, a man who could make the very stones weep when he performed, keeps appealing to his descendants. The scenario offers composers a wedding party, a tragic death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition.” NYT 2021 For the Boston Lyric Opera’s production, Aucoin reduced the orchestration demands considerably, but according to our interview subject, award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss*, who plays the newly added role of Eurydice’s father, “…the sound is quite […]