Tuesday, May 27, 2014
A critic can only wish pianist Sean Chen well in what bodes to be a spectacular career.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMFriday, May 9, 2014
The value of these two superb "operas" is learning where harpist Deborah Henson-Conant was musically (and emotionally) in the early '80s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:21PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
In both appearances here, courtesy of the Celebrity Series, Deborah Voigt was sensational and very likable to boot. This cannot be said of all divas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
At this point, violinist Xiang Yu sounds like a mature artist ready to commence a major career.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:05PMTenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Myra Huang are a superb duo, easily providing one of the highlights of this year's concert season.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:00PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
The Emmanuel Music concert was a seriously Big Event, as most Russell Sherman performances are, with many outstanding pianists there to hear it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:00PMMonday, March 24, 2014
Heralded cellist Yo-Yo Ma has played with several distinguished pianists over the years, but none (are) better than Kathryn Stott.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:05PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
The teamwork and chemistry of soprano Natalie Dessay and pianist Philippe Cassard were terrific, each performer delivering the music with great expressiveness and intelligence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:26PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Stephen Hough's performance of piano works by Brahms and Chopin was enthralling, poetic, and spellbinding.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:50AMSunday, February 23, 2014
SHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:10AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Chameleon Arts Ensemble's rather lengthy program was like a huge feast, ending with the sumptuous Saint-Saëns' Sonata No. 1 in d minor.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Love stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry - it's all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:37PMThursday, December 26, 2013
Blue Heron explores a rarely performed repertoire with a choir made up of sensational soloists.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:23AMSunday, December 8, 2013
Mistral's Artistic Director and flutist Julie Scolnik knows, after 17 successful years, how to run a terrific series - hire the best people, present a unifying theme, and program excellent m…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
The more I hear performed by the BEMF, especially their operas, the more deeply impressed - and thankful - I am.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:22PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
In "Some Day," Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:08AMSunday, November 10, 2013
I have seen my share of prodigies and their gushing PR. So I was pleasantly surprised when Benjamin Grosvenor, an unassuming youth in a white shirt and black pants, walked out and played wit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:03PMSaturday, November 2, 2013
No pianist in his right mind is going to repeat this program. András Schiff had privileged us with a gift that only he could give.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20PMSunday, October 20, 2013
Two days after pianist Yuja Wang's concert, and, sadly, what I remember best are the two skimpy dresses she wore.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:39PMMonday, September 23, 2013
The jam-packed audience for the opening performance of the fiftieth season was filled with Cantata Singers old timers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AMFriday, August 30, 2013
For classical music lovers, the opening of the concert season was, for 35 years, synonymous with flutist Fenwick Smith's annual recitals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:37PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Olympia Dukakis makes good on her desire to evoke the weakness the indomitable Mother Courage fights so hard to cover up: the actress conveys the highs and lows of this gargantuan character …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:12PMMonday, June 17, 2013
There are myriad aspects to praise lavishly in this production: A large cast with no weak links, fabulous musicians, and inspired sets, costumes, and dancing. BEMF's Almira gets everything…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27PMFriday, June 14, 2013
Dame Emma, now sixty-four, sat and sang just quietly enough and with the right measure of mystery and stillness to draw the audience in, and to keep them there in a trance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:13PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
The last Chameleon Arts Ensemble performance of this season, "mystic moons and dream music," promised much, with three famed masterpieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
The ebullient entertainer Maurice Hines held court this week at a packed Cutler Majestic Theater, along with a score of other very talented musicians and tap dancers. What an evening!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:46PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
What has NPR's Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people's psyches? "We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:32PMThursday, April 25, 2013
By Susan Miron World-renowned Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin has been featured on the Celebrity Series of Boston five times, including a remarkable two-piano appearance with James Levine (ava…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Barbara Cook's gift is to illuminate a song's words as a great actress would, while somehow having a beautiful voice at an age at which no opera singer could possibly imagine performing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:08PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
"Once people hear this music they do indeed come back for it - it is pleasing on so many levels: it soars, it soothes, it excites, it transports."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AMMonday, April 1, 2013
The Boston Camerata proffers a constant sense of discovery and rediscovery, of unusually lively musicianship and scholarship, and a sprightly sense of the humanity - and the snarly complexit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:35PM 
