A beginner’s guide to enjoying classical music. No snobs allowed.
"There’s a lot more to classical music than orchestra music. Don’t think you’re stuck with orchestras, though, if that’s not your thing. The term “classical music” is an inaccurate catchall for everything from solo piano works to...
The Strad Issue: August 2018
Description: Proof that, as a genre, the string quartet still has legs
Musicians: Cypress Quartet, Borromeo Quartet, Stephen Salters (baritone)
Works: RUEHR String Quartets nos.1–6
Catalogue Number: AVIE AV2379
The Cypress Quartet made its recorded farewell two...
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CHILD: Jubal; Adirondack Voices; Shanti Boston Modern Orchestra Project/ Gil Rose
BMOP 1057—65 minutes
This album was my introduction to the music of Peter Child. Like Lindberg’s works, Child’s music is multi-faceted and adaptable to whatever idea is at hand. The wild and...
Ian Hattwick is an artist, researcher, and technology developer whose work focuses on the creation and use of digital systems for professional artistic performances. With a background in music composition and performance, he is particularly interested in use of multimodal hardware systems to...
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Lynn Torgove, Stage Director
William Cutter, Conductor
CANDIDE - a staged and costumed truncated version of Leonard Bernstein’s delightful comic operetta “Candide” based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. Playwright Lillian Hellman approached Bernstein...
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Following the success of his 2016 MIT large-scale concert and subsequent New England Emmy-winning documentary about that event, two-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier returns to MIT for a new concert experience including music yet to be heard along with selections from his...
The internationally celebrated American organist Paul Jacobs, who has performed in all fifty states, expands the repertoire for organ and orchestra still further during the 2018-2019 season.
In October 2018, Mr. Jacobs is slated to unveil Pulitzer-Prize winning composer John Harbison's What Do We...
In threatening possibilities…
A presentation on the marriage of artistic inspiration and technology in the composition of several works, including two text settings: As I ride the late night freeways, a collaboration with poet Cathy Park Hong that takes a ride on the mean streets...
"Barack Obama’s two Presidential campaigns were defined, in part by the black voters they brought to the polls. In both 2008 and 2012, African-American women voted at a higher rate than any other demographic group in the country. But the latest analyses show that in 2016, African-Americans voted...
The Immortals, a work in progress, draws from the strange and troubling case of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose “immortal” cancer cells (HeLa cells) continue to be used in biological research over 65 years after her death. Urban will collaborate with director Logan Vaughn and...
