Play, with music (2012)
Adapted and directed by
Hershey Felder
With Mona Golabek
ArtsEmerson
Boston, MA
November 23 – December 16, 2012
A riveting account of the real-life experience of the talented pianist Lisa Jura – the mother of the performer, Mona Golabek – who grew up in Vienna and was saved from the Nazis in 1938 by means of the kindertransport which at the eleventh hour spirited 10,000 Jewish children abroad.
Concerts
Boston Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 2 with George Li, Shostakovich Symphony 5
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.
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.