Concert
Songs by Wolf, Mahler, Schoenberg, Strauss, and others.
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, Artistic Directors
Calderwood Hall
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:30 PM
An exploration of Romantic-era art songs from a psychological perspective, brought to Boston by the pianistic and vocal masters of The New York Festival of Song.
Concerts
Up, and Coming:
Abe Lincoln’s Piano
Concert, Play, Performance
Written and performed by
Hershey Felder
ArtsEmerson
Emerson-Majestic Theater, Boston
May 20 – 31, 2014
A touchingly evocative, musically enhanced account of the life and death of Lincoln, told mainly through the character of the young doctor who attended to him at his death.
Up, and Coming:
Somerville PorchFest
Concert, Festival
Somerville, MA
Saturday
May 17, 2014
The annual distributed music festival on porches all over Somerville.
The Milk Carton Kids
Concert
The Milk Carton Kids:
Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, MA
A delightful concert by the young folk duo made considerably more famous via the film Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of ‘Llewyn Davis’, a concert film produced last year by the Coen brothers in conjunction with the release of Inside Llewyn Davis, their narrative film based loosely on the memoir by sixties folk singer Dave van Ronk.
Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
Concert
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Niladri Kumar, sitar
Dilshad Khan, sarangi
V. Selvaganesh, ghatam
Vijay S Chavan, dholki
Deepak Bhatt, dhol
Steve Smith, drums
World Music/CRASHarts
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
April 6, 2014
One of the world’s premier tabla player blows the roof off Symphony Hall with a band of world-class Indian musicians, mostly percussionists, and an out of this world American drummer.