A.Z. Madonna
Music Writer at The Boston Globe
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
“There’s nothing more beautiful to me than a pit full of musicians,” violinist Sarah Darling remarked to me as she took her seat with the orchestra for Sunday afternoon’s performance of Boston Early Music Festival’s centerpiece opera, Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 “Octavia.” Even as pits go, BEMF mainstage pits are up there for beauty.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
“You must get drunk without stopping. But what with? On wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please. But get drunk,” wrote Charles Baudelaire more than 150 years ago. Add to that list “music” and “lack of sleep,” and that pretty much sums up your average Boston Early Music Festival. As a Monday evening audience spilled onto the steps of Jordan Hall, someone said that the concert had elevated him to “another psychic plane,” where he planned to stay for the foreseeable future.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
The celebratory crowd that gathered in downtown Boston on June 17th, 1825, was perhaps 100,000 strong, around double the city’s population. People had come from near and far. President John Quincy Adams and his entire Cabinet were there, along with musicians, poets, and orators.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
This year ends in an odd number, which means it’s a Boston Early Music Festival year, and for the duration of next week, this city might lay claim to the world’s densest concentration of people who know what a viola da gamba is.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
There was an hour to go until the first rehearsal for “BaroQUEER: Historically Informed,” the first-ever collaboration between Boston’s storied Handel and Haydn Society and the burgeoning New York City-based collective ChamberQUEER. Countertenor Reginald Mobley, a longtime Jamaica Plain resident, was waiting at a South End cafe as a contingent of New York performers rolled into town, some by train, others by car.
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