A.Z. Madonna
Music Writer at The Boston Globe
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2 weeks ago |
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In its 2025-2026 season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor the United States’s 250th anniversary with a wide-ranging exploration of American music, featuring three dozen works by American composers past and present. The 125th anniversary of Symphony Hall will also be commemorated with Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” which was performed at the hall’s October 1900 inaugural concert, and other music from the turn of the 20th century.
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Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein “didn’t realize for a long time” that the release of their upcoming six-episode series on the American Revolution would line up with the 250th anniversary year of the beginning of the war itself, Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the “shot heard round the world.” Burns initially raised the idea for an American Revolution series in December 2015 while still editing 2017’s “The Vietnam War,” he said.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
Even more than 40 years later, the first Anne Bogart project I hear most people mention is her metatheatrical 1984 New York University production of “South Pacific,” set in a veterans’ hospital with putting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical framed as a therapeutic device for the institution’s traumatized patients. Critics praised it as incisive, “hilarious and sexy”, while the Rodgers and Hammerstein estate refused to grant the production the run extension it requested.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
As a rule, soloists who perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra can wear whatever formal garb they like, and often they dress to be the center of attention. At the very least, the soloists can usually be distinguished at a glance from the other musicians on the bill, even if their personal styles aren’t as flashy as, say, Yuja Wang or Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | A.Z. Madonna
This summer, Boston Art & Music Soul (BAMS) Fest will put on its largest-scale event to date, hosting several free and ticketed events around the Boston area during the week surrounding its usual summer festival in Franklin Park. Those events, which include concerts, a fashion showcase, a film screening, and a beat battle competition, will all take place under the umbrella of a series called Momentum. Festival founder Catherine T.
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