Lee Eiseman

1 month ago | homepagenews.com | Lee Eiseman |Chandler Harvey

Home LISTEN: Pantone’s Eiseman Details 2026 Color Trends for the Home Posted In: The Inspired Home Show | The Inspired Home Show 2025 | Videos To explain the “Welcome Home” theme, Eiseman said, “These are two words when used together, that express the most deep-seated and intrinsic human needs. It’s a theme that’s highly relatable and well understood, as a welcoming home provides the roof over our heads, whether it be a condo in the city, an expansive loft that has reminders of its industrial...

1 month ago | classical-scene.com | Lee Eiseman

Over the last couple of decades, Chair of the New England Conservatory piano department Bruce Brubaker has organized multi-day tributes to the piano works of several composers. Some highlights include 2008 Messiaen, 2009 Haydn (every piano sonata), 2010 Chopin, 2011 Liszt, 2012 John Cage, 2015 Scriabin (every piano work), 2020 Beethoven (every piano work), and 2024 Ives.

Jan 19, 2025 | classical-scene.com | Lee Eiseman

A shocking discovery that its namesake composer Handel may have benefited from the slave trade led the Handel and Haydn Society to embark almost simultaneously on a research project and an act of musical restitution, “Crossing the Deep,” which is playing this weekend at Jordan Hall in two sold-out performances. Detailed research led to more nuanced understanding.

Jul 19, 2024 | classical-scene.com | Lee Eiseman

Anyone who has ever played the Adagio from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has wondered why the composer instructs performers to release the dampers for the entire first movement, the ghostly and funereal Andante Sostenuto. Of course, that results in a cosmic conflagration of careening harmonies on a modern piano. Andras Schiff famously ‘solved’ the problem by positing that Beethoven meant the movement to be read in cut time. Therefore he sends it by us with pedal down in a rushed 4:30.

Mar 31, 2024 | classical-scene.com | Lee Eiseman

Though last night’s intimate Vaughan Williams vocal recital began with a duet of “a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino” (Shakespeare), the lovers and the lasses of sweet spring love soon made way for ponderers on religious and the metaphysical stuffs during Boston Art Song Society’s visit to Somerville Music Spaces.