Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
The piano prodigy, George Li, now in his later teens, shows his amazing technique, and the BPO gives an heroic rendition of the great Shostakovich classic.
Concerts
The Chiara Quartet: Mozart, Lutosławski, Dvořák
Concert
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
A precise and disciplined, but youthfully exuberant, string quartet with some classic yet offbeat offerings.
Beethoven’s Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano: Pieter Wispelwey and Lois Shapiro
Concert
The Complete Cello-Piano Sonatas by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Lois Shapiro, piano
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Boston Philharmonic: Prokoviev with Stefan Jackiw, Strauss with Rafael Keizer-Popper, and Sibelius
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Repeats, Saturday, 10/27, 8:00pm, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Sunday, 10/28, 3:00pm, Sanders Theater
Scintillating and moving renditions of the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No. 2, with former wunderkind, now wunder-young-adult, Stefan Jackiw, and of Strauss’s Don Quixote, with the Philharmonic’s dynamic principal cellist, Rafael Popper-Keizer, and an unfamiliar but interesting Sibelius piece to boot.
Honk
Festival of Activist Street Bands
Davis Square, Somerville, MA
October 5 – 7, 2012
A raucous multi-day celebration of all kinds of marching bands, mostly brass, mostly with liberal and progressive political associations.