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3 weeks ago |
artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh
By Aaron KeebaughRussian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was both a rebel and a conformist, a fascinating hybrid of courage and cowardice. Even when mired in perpetual crisis, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich tried to look on the bright side. “Life is beautiful,” he said of his Eighth Symphony, a work that ends in a glimmer of light.
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1 month ago |
classical-scene.com | Aaron Keebaugh
They both captured the optimism of their youthful days. And both endured the calamities of tragic wars that followed. Yet Walt Whitman and Ralph Vaughan Williams, though decades and an ocean part, came to the same conclusions about the oneness of all things from vastly different vantage points. Whitman expressed himself through plain, even rough language that captured the transcendental spirit.
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2 months ago |
artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh
By Aaron KeebaughGuest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and the Boston Symphony Orchestra invited listeners to a meditative evening of music. How can a Requiem be so upbeat?” one listener quipped after the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concert last Thursday night.
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2 months ago |
artsfuse.org | Aaron Keebaugh
By Aaron KeebaughViolinist Ray Chen and the BSO delivered one of the most seismic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto that I’ve heard. “The violin is no longer played,” complained Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick about Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. “It is tugged about, torn, beaten black and blue.”For Hanslick, Tchaikovsky’s music epitomized vulgarity. Its wild turns and lack of formal dimensions were simply too much for his civilized ears.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
classical-scene.com | Aaron Keebaugh
The project took nine years. And for composer Keeril Makan, the construction of the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT had occupied just about every moment in his creative life during that time. But this past Sunday, Makan opened of the building and its Tull Concert Hall to a larger public by looking to and celebrating the past. In his opening remarks ahead of a performance by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Makan highlighted the relationship between the BSO and MIT.
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