Jeffrey Gantz

13 hours ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.

17 hours ago | bostonglobe.com | Don Aucoin |A.Z. Madonna |Murray Whyte |Jeffrey Gantz |Jon Garelick |Maura Johnston | +1 more

Christiani Pitts (Robin) and Sam Tutty (Dougal) in rehearsal for "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)."Nile Scott StudiosTWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK CITY) The two strangers in question in this musical two-hander are Dougal, a cheery Britisher in his mid-20s traveling to attend the wedding of his father — whom he has never met — and Robin, also in her 20s, a hard-bitten native New Yorker who is the sister of the young woman Dougal’s father is about to marry.

1 week ago | classical-scene.com | Jeffrey Gantz

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra finished the 2024–2025 season with two of Shostakovich’s greatest works, Violin Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 8. It might have seemed an odd program for May, since these are also two of Shostakovich’s grimmest works.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jeffrey Gantz

By Jeffrey Gantz, Globe correspondent“The Center Will Not Hold” started out as “a little room,” a four-and-a-half-minute soft-shoe duet that tapper Michelle Dorrance and b-girl Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie created and performed at New York’s Joyce Theater in December 2022. That morphed into the 30-minute version that premiered at New York’s Fall for Dance Festival in 2023.

3 weeks ago | classical-scene.com | Jeffrey Gantz

Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra first played Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection,” in 1982. In the 43 years since then, it is, I would guess, the piece Zander has programmed most often. He recorded it with the Philharmonia of London in 2012. He last did it with the BPO in 2017, and with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in 2023.