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New York Festival of Song Gala Honoring Stephen Sondheim

April 19, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim

Concert
Composer, lyricist and honoree: Stephen Sondheim
Pianist and host: Steven Blier
New York Festival of Song
Artistic Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett
Gala event chairs: Hal Prince and Jamie Bernstein
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
April 19, 2017, 7pm

A wonderful array of Sondheim songs played and sung expertly, and introduced with brilliance, warmth and wit by pianist and artistic director Steven Blier.

Schuller, Mozart , Beethoven

February 21, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Emanuel Ax

Concert
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)
Seven Studies on Themes of
Paul Klee
(1959)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, “Eroica”
Symphony Hall, Boston

Jazzy but precise Schuller, delicate and melliflous Mozart and carefully choreographed Beethoven.

Prokoviev, Weinberg, Tchaikovsky

January 21, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Gidon Kremer

Concert
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
January 21, 2017

An evening featuring celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer playing a little known concerto by a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, sandwiched between two great works by Prokoviev and Tchaikovsky.

Here All Night

October 6, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Poster

Concert, Performance, Play
Conceived and Created by
Judy Hegarty Lovett,
Paul Clark, Conor Lovett and
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Includes texts by
Samuel Beckett
Director: Judy Hegarty Lovett
Composer/Musical Director:
Paul Clark
Gare St. Lazare Ireland
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Washington Street
Theater District, Boston
October 5 – 9, 2016

A wonderfully performed piece – a kind of existentialist chamber oratorio – using words by Samuel Beckett with music by Paul Clark.

David Finckel, Wu Han,
David Shifrin

January 15, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Trio

Concert
David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
David Shifrin, clarinet
Works by Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms
Celebrity Series of Boston
Jordan Hall, Boston
January 15, 2016, 8pm

A delightfully nuanced account of an array of Romantic pieces for the somewhat unlikely combination of piano, cello and clarinet.

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