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LLOYD SCHWARTZ

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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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Orpheus ascending

Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Richard Conrad, Dolores Ziegler, and John Ferrillo
Chinese-born director Chen Shi-Zheng is the latest in a line of original opera directors (Sarah Caldwell, Peter Sellars) who’ve developed a Boston following.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  September 26, 2006

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From Knoxville to Swan Lake and back

A chock-full season of classical music
As our most prestigious classical-music institution, the Boston Symphony Orchestra ought to be every year’s headliner, and once again, under the adventuresome direction of James Levine, it is.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  September 13, 2006

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Caravan

American ballet music at Monadnock; a young Latin American conductor at Tanglewood
James Bolle’s final concert of Monadnock Music’s summer season began with a work that had had its premiere in Keene, New Hampshire, 70 years and three days earlier.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  August 30, 2006

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Opera, opera, opera

At Santa Fe and Tanglewood and in New York
Every performance at Santa Fe was packed, and few subscribers left unhappy.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  August 15, 2006

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Mozart plus

James Levine’s Don Giovanni and Elektra ; Dubravka Tomsic at Newport
Tanglewood 2006 may well be remembered as the summer of James Levine’s Don Giovanni .
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  July 25, 2006

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

1954–2006
We were very lucky, here in Boston, to have had so many chances to hear Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died in Santa Fe last Monday at the age of 52.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  July 11, 2006

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Some angels

Opera Unlimited does Tony Kushner, plus Elizabeth Keusch, Roger Tapping, Donal Fox, and John Harbison
Congratulations are again in order to Opera Unlimited, this time for bringing to Boston the American premiere of Peter Eötvös’s attempt to make an opera out of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America .
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  June 21, 2006

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New to Boston

Chorus pro Musica does Verdi’s Attila ; the Bostonians do Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande
Last year, Jeffrey Rink’s Chorus pro Musica gave us seductive belly wriggling; this year: “screams, rape, moans, blood, pillage” and the desire to “feast on limbs and severed heads.”
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  June 07, 2006

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Odds and endings

Russell Sherman, the Cantata Singers’ Belshazzar , and Dmitri Hvorostovsky  
The classical-music season is winding up without winding down.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  May 16, 2006

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Ear-popping

Opera Boston’s Lucrezia Borgia , the BSO’s Oedipus Rex  
Of the three operas recently competing with one another, Opera Boston’s presentation of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia was in some ways the most fun.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  May 09, 2006

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The eyes of Osiris

Boston Lyric Opera’s Thaïs, Emmanuel Music’s The Magic Flute
Jules Massenet composed two operas about the relationship between a beautiful voluptuary and a man of the cloth, both of which take us from the high life of a cosmopolitan sin city to a desert where the heroine dies.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  May 02, 2006

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Sweet tooth

  Boston Lyric Opera imports The Little Prince , the BSO premieres Yehudi Wyner’s piano concerto, and Renée Fleming
I hope the estate of Leonard Bernstein is collecting royalties for The Little Prince . Rachel Portman’s unremittingly sweet and relentlessly lilting score for this children’s opera based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous story borrows heavily from Bernstein’s Candide and West Side Story .
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 19, 2006

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Granduer and intimacy

Frühbeck de Burgos at the BSO, the Borromeos’ Schoenberg, BMOP at Club Café
One of the most delightful moments in Mozart comes at the very end of his Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, the first of his last trio of great symphonies.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 18, 2006

Wolf Parade

Holy F#@%!

A classical aesthete checks out Wolf Parade. And their vulgar opening band, too.
ThePhoenix.com’s Pulitzer-winning classical music columnist told us he was going to see Wolf Parade. We said, “You better get us a camera-phone photo.”
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 08, 2006

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Carried away

Frederic Rzewski, eighth blackbird, Yan Pascal Tortelier & the London Philharmonic, Emmanuel Krivine & the BSO, BLO’s La traviata, Teatro Lirico’s magical Flute
I’ve heard a lot of music in the past couple of weeks — concerts by two major symphony orchestras, with two major young violinists, a hot new-music group, and two opera productions.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  April 04, 2006

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Opera’s great loss

Sarah Caldwell, 1924–2006
When the curtain went up at Boston’s Back Bay Theatre for the American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron , in November 1966, two figures were standing back to back in a spotlight on a small disc.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 29, 2006

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Making it new

Ballet mécanique in Washington, the Callithumpians’ Xenakis, Mark Morris in New York and Boston, Yo-Yo Ma at the BSO, Harbison’s But Mary Stood
The avant-garde ain’t what it used to be.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 21, 2006

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Ralph Hamilton

1946–2006
My lovable, impossible friend of more than 30 years, the artist Ralph Hamilton, died on February 19, of complications from diabetes. He was only 59. It’s a very sad loss. He was one of Boston’s most original and searching painters and had been doing some of his most ambitious and moving work.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 09, 2006

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Variety show

James Levine at the BSO, Ewa Podles, Gunther Schuller’s jazz, Ben Zander’s Elgar, Russell Sherman’s Mozart, Opera Boston’s Chabrier, Boston Baroque’s Purcell  
James Levine completed his second season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director with another riveting though not-quite polished evening of Schoenberg and Beethoven.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  March 08, 2006
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