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LLOYD SCHWARTZ

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Emmanuel Music’s Alcina , André Previn at the BSO, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
Music lovers had a tough decision to make last Saturday between two great operas that are rarely performed here.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 24, 2007

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But not simpler

James Levine and Christoph von Dohnányi at the BSO, Tod Machover at the ICA, Karita Mattila
James Levine’s last program of the BSO season was an odd assortment.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 17, 2007

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Unmasked

Boston Lyric Opera’s Un ballo in maschera ; Scott Wheeler’s The Construction of Boston
It would be fun to report that in the same weekend Bostonians got to hear two operas from two different centuries that take place on their home turf.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 05, 2007

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Stormy weather

BSO cancellations, plus the Camerata, Jonathan Biss, Emmanuel Music, and more
The BSO has been having terrible luck hanging on to its star soloists.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 28, 2007

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Heroics

Ricardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Teatro Lirico, and the BSO’s latest guests
It’s been eight years since Ricardo Chailly made his last Boston appearance.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 13, 2007

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Rise and fall

Opera Boston does Mahagonny; the BSO and the Boston Philharmonic do Sibelius
With its production of the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Opera Boston consolidates its position as this city’s most exciting opera company.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 13, 2007

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Damned good

Levine’s Berlioz and Wuorinen, Garrick Ohlsson’s Beethoven, the Borromeo’s Shostakovich, the Alloy’s Eagle
James Levine returned from his winter break with one of the most thrilling BSO concerts of his tenure: Berlioz’s “dramatic legend,” La damnation de Faust.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  February 20, 2007

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Anticipation

James Levine and Deborah Voigt, Collage New Music, Teatro Lirico’s Turandot
James Levine was back in front of the BSO after his Christmas break, and as good as at least one of the guest conductors.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  February 06, 2007

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Cornucopia

The BSO, the Cantata Singers, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Celebrity Series
The year 2007 didn’t begin on the highest note.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  January 23, 2007

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In extremis

Handel's Ariodante and Lang Lang
In Handel’s Ariodante we move from the sunlit first act into a world of moonlight, darkness, deception, and emotional blindness.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  January 30, 2007

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Erwartung . . .

Classical goodies for 2007
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA music director James Levine will be back in February to continue his survey of Beethoven and Schoenberg with Metropolitan Opera diva Deborah Voigt in Beethoven’s “Ah! perfido” and Schoenberg’s Erwartung (“Awaiting”), along with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Eighth Symphony (Symphony Hall, February 1-3).
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  December 28, 2006

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The best of times, the worst of times

A year in classical
This year Boston classical music lost some of its most beloved figures — some, like mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, at the very height of their extraordinary powers, others, like opera director Sarah Caldwell and her conductor/collaborator, Osbourne McConathy, after long and gratifying runs.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  December 20, 2006

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Changing lives

 The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
People who love the arts are fond of saying that art changes our lives. Slideshow: The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  December 15, 2006

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Winter harvest

Emmanuel’s memorial to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Angelika Kirchschlager at Jordan Hall; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and El Niño at the BSO
"I don’t want to be here,” soprano Susan Larson lamented in her moving eulogy to her old friend and colleague Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.  
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  December 12, 2006

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Beyond the fringe

The BSO’s Beethoven, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Brahms; Intermezzo’s Britten; Zander’s Mahler
It was a good week for chamber opera: Bluebeard’s Castle from the BSO, Curlew River from Intermezzo.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 20, 2006

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Harvard Square

Ground zero for so much, for so many
Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 15, 2006

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Taking chances

Levine’s Beethoven and Schoenberg; BLO’s Madama Butterfly ; Kremer and Zimerman
The most extraordinary event at last week’s extraordinary Boston Symphony Orchestra concert was the one the fewest people heard.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 07, 2006

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Landmarks

The BSO’s Moses und Aron  and Emmanuel Music’s Orlando
Seventy-four years after Schoenberg composed (but never finished) Moses und Aron , this towering 20th-century masterwork got its first Boston Symphony Orchestra performance.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  October 31, 2006

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Transfigured nights

The BSO’s Schoenberg and Beethoven; Boston Baroque’s Don Giovanni; Opera Boston’s La clemenza di Tito
James Levine and the BSO resumed their Beethoven/Schoenberg series with superb performances of two pieces at the opposite ends of the Schoenberg spectrum.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  October 24, 2006

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Marketplace and temple

The BSO’s opening night; Marcus Thompson and the Jupiter String Quartet
At times, this ‘American’ program, led by the BSO’s first American music director, bordered on being a Pops concert.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  October 03, 2006
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