Live reviews
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Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block: Sonorous Vessels3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NHApril 18, 2015 Sound artists Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block collaborated for the first time in the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a new piece inspired by and extending upon Alvin Lucier's Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels, on Saturday night at 3S Artspace in
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The Nile Project, by Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe The Nile Project at Tsai Performance Center, March 27, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 30, 2015 I'm reasonably sure that I didn't use the word fad when I filed this review, since that term doesn't accurately portray my feelings about artistic and cultural fusion, which can be a
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The author, daughter, and Lee Konitz, by Limor Tomer Annina didn't make it quite to the end of the lovely set that Lee Konitz, a saxophonist who actually warrants the tag "legendary," played with pianist Dan Tepfer at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Much as I would have liked to hear it, I
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Cameron Carpenter, by Sean Proctor/Boston Globe Cameron Carpenter at Sanders Theatre, March 5, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 9, 2015
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Isabel Mundry and Raphaël Cendo ECCE Ensemble at Goethe-Institut Boston, December 6, 2014Boston GlobeDecember 8, 2014 ECCE Ensemble's next public concert program will be a portrait of Mark Andre, a French composer based in Germany and a student of Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann, among others (and not to be mistaken for Marc-André Dalbavie). Bostonians
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Bob Dylan and His Band, Orpheum Theatre, November 14, 2014Boston Globe, November 16, 2014 "You were off base with your review. He was horrible. I couldn't understand any of his lyrics or the songs he was seeing. It was an awful show and I wouldn't ever go back to see him. The band sounded beautiful
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Yes performing "Siberian Khatru" at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion When it comes to the Yes shows I've caught since I first started attending in 2004 (late start, I know), as well as those I've heard via various audience-sourced recordings floating around on the Interwebs, there's a simple, fairly reliable rule of thumb: As goes "Siberian
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iPhone photo, June 7, 2014 The fifth installment in the three-part [sic] series "Days between," compiling my unblogged recent work for The New York Times, and – for reasons I expect to be fairly obvious – the final installment for the foreseeable future. The end of a run that meant the world to me. As
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James Maddalena, Michael Chioldi and David Kravitz, by Kathy Wittman Odyssey Opera June Festival at Boston University Theatre, June 11 & 12, 2014The Boston Globe, June 19, 2014 My first review for the Boston Globe covers the first two nights of a four-night festival by Odyssey Opera, a new company arisen from the demise of
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Should one wish to immerse oneself in Boston's thriving live-music scene – and should one attempt to do so on a Monday night – one could do much, much worse than to hit the Lilypad, a modest, cozy storefont space in Inman Square, where two incredibly proficient, stylistically diverse bands are in regular residence. The
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Reinier van Houdt, by Michelle V. Agins for The New York Times Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum, March 25, 2014The New York Times, March 27, 2014 Two separate recitals by brilliant pianists heard most frequently in group settings: Jacob Greenberg with the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Reinier van Houdt in the Ives
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Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall, March 23, 2014The New York Times, March 26, 2014 My first time to see and hear the Emersons with their new cellist, Paul Watkins. Nice to know that it all still works, and that youngblood has lit a new fire in his crew.
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Colin Stetson and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, by Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Colin Stetson with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Merkin Concert Hall, March 22, 2014The New York Times, March 25, 2014 This one came out really, really quickly, despite some hair-splitting fact-checking that ran up to deadline hour. Once I had
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John Zorn: Masada Book 3 at the Town Hall, March 19, 2014The New York Times, March 21, 2014 The biggest surprise about this particular concert was the fact that I was there; I'd originally been scheduled to cover a different event, but a sick colleague prompted a last-minute shuffle, and here we are. Because of
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Zubin Mehta, Diana Damrau and the Vienna Philharmonic, by Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, March 15 & 16, 2014The New York Times, March 17, 2014 The whole time Diana Damrau was cavorting on the Carnegie Hall podium – during a long evening's third and final encore, understand –
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Alan Gilbert, by Karsten Moran for The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, March 12, 2014The New York Times, March 14, 2014 In which I describe Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," like so: "A seamless sequence of vivid episodes, the piece is a craggy MacGuffin that shouldn’t work but
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