Chaerin KimWhat makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating ...
What makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating music and evaluating performances, this question feels urgent. A machine can ...
The youthful, eclectic, avant guard chamber troupe Poiesis Quartet made its Boston debut Sunday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Calderwood Hall. Poiesis is the ancient Greek term ποιεῖν, which means ...
To start what will be their final season, Zander and the BPYO brought the Overture to Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, ...
A concert entirely of music by a little-known historic composer is a bold undertaking, and Sarah Ioannides (Director of ...
Director Patricia Racette guided the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with a ...
After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of ...
Lisbon is perhaps not the first name to enter one’s mind in cataloguing chief European musical cities. Nevertheless, it boasts a somewhat hidden secret asset that we happened upon during a recent trip ...
This week’s BSO offering (the first evening just over), featuring dance music without dancers, intrigued many, with thrum filling the air before a note sounded. Tchaikovsky, a vaunted master of scores ...
I play the piano, which makes me a lucky amateur in one way and an unlucky one in another. Lucky, because there’s more solo piano music than anyone could get through in a lifetime. Unlucky, because it ...
Last Sunday marked the 130 th anniversary of the death of Anton Bruckner. It also marked the Boston premiere of his First Symphony. You’d think that the BSO would have done every Bruckner symphony by ...
The selection of three American composers, each of them famous enough in past decades to be included on the Hatch Shell proscenium arch—Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Amy Beach (1867-1944) and George ...