Reviewing Quatour Ébène.
Boston Globe, March 3, 2014.
Globe Articles
Hot House Flowers
Reviewing Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace.
Boston Globe, February 25, 2014.
Thicker than water
Drinks below! But first, some catch-up:
New England’s Prospect: Three World Premieres. Reviewing the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
NewMusicBox, January 28, 2014.
Reviewing Kirill Gerstein.
Boston Globe, February 3, 2014.
Score: Toshirō Mayuzumi, on screen and in the right-wing arena.
Boston Globe, February 9, 2014.
Score: “Will You Walke the Woods So Wilde” and the ways of musical celebrity.
Boston Globe, February 16, 2014.
Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing West Side Story.
Boston Globe, February 16, 2014.
While you read, here’s a little something—chewy and fruity in equal parts—to get you through this last stretch of winter and into spring.
Thorolf’s Bowl
1 oz. aquavit
1 oz. Cynar
1 oz. lemon juice
½ oz. blood orange-rosemary cordial (see below)
dash of orange bittersShake all ingredients with ice and strain into something that’ll look good sitting on your sacrificial altar.
For the blood orange-rosemary cordial:
1 cup blood orange juice
½ cup sugar
1 tablespoon rosemary
½ cup or so of blood orange peels (without the pith)Combine in a pot and bring to a boil; simmer until reduced to about a cup of liquid. Strain out the rosemary and peels.
Death and Transfiguration
Score: Luciano Berio and heroic mythology. O King, the Sinfonia, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Boston Globe, January 25, 2014.
I also forgot to link to last week’s effort:
Score: A real-life diva gave Tosca some of its flavor. A menu via Sarah Bernhardt and Auguste Escoffier.
Boston Globe, January 18, 2014.
It ain’t fiction, just a natural fact
Reviewing Jeremy Denk.
Boston Globe, January 14, 2014.
Two weeks into 2014, and this recital has already earned a spot on my year-end best list.
Wherefore, O wherefore
Score: Behind a Copland experiment, a ethnomusicological pioneer. On Joel Engel.
Boston Globe, January 12, 2014.
While you read, you can listen to me play (and occasionally stumble) through Engel’s “A Nigun” (op. 19, no. 1):
http://www.matthewguerrieri.com/sounds/player.swf
Enduro
Score: the Atari 2600 and the Phrygian mode.
Boston Globe, January 5, 2014.
This might be my favorite one of these columns so far. Oh, and I forgot to link to one over the holidays:
Score: Paul Whiteman’s Eighth Experiment in Modern Music.
Boston Globe, December 22, 2013.
One more? One more:
New England’s Prospect: May All Your Christmases Be Weird.
NewMusicBox, December 23, 2013.
A yuletide respite, courtesy of Weirdo Records.
Call rival out, initially; swords cross in challenge! (9)
New Music Boxes: Another Year’s Gone By.
An occasionally topical crossword for NewMusicBox, December 18, 2013.
Also, what with the holiday rush, I forgot to link to this month’s Score columns:
Score: Walter Marchetti’s precision troublemaking.
Boston Globe, December 14, 2013.
Score: Ceremon[ies] of Carols and the collecting impulse.
Boston Globe, December 7, 2013.
Score: the crafty respectability of John Knowles Paine.
Boston Globe, November 30, 2013.
Beat the clock
Reviewing Boston Musica Viva.
NewMusicBox, November 25, 2013.
Reviewing Discovery Ensemble.
Boston Globe, November 26, 2013.
Into the blue again
More concerts seen and considered:
Anniversary Waltzes: Kronos Quartet and Community MusicWorks in Providence.
NewMusicBox, November 18, 2013.
Reviewing Joshua Bell.
Boston Globe, November 19, 2013.
(Also, from last week: a NewMusicBox review of the new Alvin Lucier orchestra-works CD.)
I have two more articles to get out the door today, so of course I woke up and instead did this:
My skill at time management: same as it ever was.