Jeffrey Gantz

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Correspondent at The Boston Globe

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David Dorfman Dance looks for peace with ‘truce songs,’ at the ICA - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jeffrey Gantz

When you enter the ICA’s Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater for David Dorfman Dance‘s “truce songs,” you’re handed a small square of gauzy white fabric as a memento of the occasion. The stage floor is white. The backdrop is white. Above the stage, a huge white sheet is suspended from a metal trapezoid. Some white fabric is piled up downstage left. White is, of course, the color of a flag of truce, and “truce songs” asks why the truces we declare can’t be extended indefinitely.
From Shakira at Fenway to Shakespeare in Cambridge: 82 can’t-miss things to do in Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks 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.
Boston Ballet looks back and forward in ‘Spring Experience’ - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jeffrey Gantz

Boston Ballet’s “Spring Experience” opens with a salute to the Spirit of Ballet Past: Marius Petipa’s 1898 “Raymonda” as reimagined by artistic director Mikko Nissinen. After intermission, the Spirit of Ballet Present (or even Future) arrives in the form of Jiří Kylián‘s “27′52″” and “Petite Mort.” Thursday at the Citizens Opera House, Viktorina Kapitonova and Sangmin Lee were stellar in “Raymonda,” and the Kylián pieces offered food for thought along with fine performances.
82 fun things to do in and around Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks 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.
82 fun things to do in and around Boston this summer - The Boston Globe

3 weeks 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.
“Decoding Shostakovich”and the BSO Season End With a Bang

1 month 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.
‘The Center Will Not Hold’ brims with creative energy - The Boston Globe

1 month 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.
An Apocalyptic Good Friday “Resurrection”

1 month 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.
BSO Kicks Off Shostakovich Month

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

This month, the BSO is celebrating the release of its 19-disc Shostakovich box from Deutsche Grammophon [see our feature HERE] with a “Decoding Shostakovich” slate of talks and performances. The series kicked off Wednesday at the BYSO Youth Center for Music with String Quartet No. 8. Thursday, Andris Nelsons and the BSO revisited Symphonies Nos. 6 and 11.
Boston Ballet 2025-2026 season includes world premiere plus classics

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Jeffrey Gantz

Boston Ballet will open its 2025–2026 season at the Citizens Opera House with George Balanchine’s “Jewels” and close with Marius Petipa’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” In between we’ll get a world premiere by former company artist My’Kal Stromile and Boston Ballet’s first-ever performances of Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream,” William Forsythe’s “Herman Schmerman,” and Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering.” We’ll also see the return of Crystal Pite’s “The Seasons’ Canon,” resident choreographer...