BSO

Quiet, the maestro is fuming

adamg — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:09:55 -0500

BSO officials might want to sleep with one eye open:

... "I feel not only slighted but I suffered what is called in Russian a moral insult, and I'm free to take any actions to defend myself in public." ...

Young'uns get a break from the BSO

adamg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:28:36 -0500

The Boston Symphony Orchestra says that if you're under 40, you can get into concerts for the rest of the 2008-2009 season for $20 apiece. Some 4,000 tickets, normally priced between $29 and $115, are now up for grabs for concerts starting Nov. 20, thanks to an anonymous donor who's making up the difference.

BSO using fear and intimidation to drum up donations?

adamg — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:06:38 -0400

The lesson from this story seems to be: If somebody from the BSO calls, don't even talk to them, just hang up right away.

If you don't like the music, get out of Symphony Hall

adamg — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:32:51 -0500

Stacie explains why she came close to kicking the woman next to her at Symphony this past Thursday.

Opening night at Symphony

adamg — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:28:15 -0400

Joel Brown was there last night:

In last night's all-Ravel opening program at Symphony Hall, the full awesomeness of James Levine's command of the orchestra only really showed during the closing piece, the Second Suite from Daphnis et Chloe. It was especially noticeable in the final few minutes, with waves of mini-crescendoes in which he demonstrated his vivid control of the band ...

Composer to BSO: Your Web site sucks

adamg — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:40:02 -0400

Geoff Edgers has the scoop.

The BSO is rich

adamg — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:05:54 -0400

Here's proof. And here's an explanation (James Levine is involved).

Daring musical mash-up at the BSO

adamg — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:06:18 -0500

Will raves about Deborah Voigt's performance during the BSO's Beethoven/Schoenberg combo this week:

... Schoenberg, to put it mildly, isn't everybody's cup of tea, particularly his compositions after abandoning traditional melody and tonality. ... Star soprano Deborah Voigt sang the Schoenberg and the concert aria thrillingly. ...

Pop Go The Ladies

amusings — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:28:03 -0500

Friday night, we took our children to see the Boston Pops' Holiday show. Barenaked Ladies were the special guest.

To read the chronicle of our adventures in Symphony, read more here.

We go over to Symphony Hall, and everyone there is dressed impeccably. There is fur, there are gowns, there are ties, there are bow ties. There are dress shoes, there are glittery blouses. Everyone is there, dressed to the nines, and my son finally kind of gets it. It's not a rock show -- it's a symphony. And now he's pissed because he doesn't want to see the stupid orchestra. He wants to see Barenaked Ladies. I tell him again and again, you WILL see Barenaked Ladies. I promise you, they are going to be here.

R-rated classical music

adamg — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:32:04 -0400

Just in time for Mother's Day, the BSO presents Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex - which gives Tim Jarrett, who will be part of the performance's chorus, an interesting conundrum: A co-worker says the concert sounds interesting for his 13-year-old daughter, who's taking voice lessons; should Tim recommend he get tickets, given the subject matter?

... Stravinsky wrote some of the most amazingly inventive, sinuous melody lines for this work, which sports a libretto by Jean Cocteau. I think my personal favorite is the herky-jerky chromaticism of the passage where Oedipus batters down the door, kills his mother/wife, and puts out his own eyes. ...