Moody says it best: "While the world is focused on the economy, we will focus on being the best human beings we can be."
Emily Parkhurst can be reached atemily.parkhurst@yahoo.com. Jeff Inglis contributed to this story.
Editor's Note: In a previous version of this online article, and in the print version, thePSO's KinderKonzert series was said to be eliminated. It is in fact just drastically reduced and is corrected above.
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There’s more to Boston’s classical music scene than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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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).
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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.
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It is said that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) “got around.” Even today, the old dog arouses the interests of performers and seduces listeners.
- Chamber music revival
Classical and rock ‘n roll music suffer the same identity crisis.
- Quartet for a very long time
Any opportunity to see Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major performed by musicians of this caliber should always be taken.
- Making small bigger
Chamber music originated in the 17th and 18th centuries for nobles and aristocrats, written by personal house composers.
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The newly formed Portland Chamber Orchestra will perform in Gorham, showcasing chamber music ranging from the Baroque period to the 20th century.
- Beethoven summer
The only music festival in Maine to be mentioned in the New York Times "Summer Stages" segment, this spectacular music fest can be appreciated by classical connoisseurs and novices alike.
- Russian, Spanish, American . . .
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