Reviewing Christine Brewer.
Boston Globe, January 18, 2011.
Update (1/18): For the sharp-eyed: no, Kirsten Flagstad was, of course, not American—but the set in question was making reference to her fame in America.
Update (1/19): And it’s been fixed. The reviewer apologizes for his spasm of infelicitous clause-making.
Globe Articles
It was a dark and stormy night
Reviewing the Cantata Singers.
Boston Globe, January 17, 2011.
No more champagne, and the fireworks are through
Reviewing Boston Baroque.
Boston Globe, January 4, 2010.
Without them, what would little boys do?
Reviewing the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
Boston Globe, December 13, 2010.
A review of an all-female-composer program in which I try to say something intelligent about the wherewithal, institutional and aesthetic, of an all-female-composer program. (Still, even after almost 40 years, one of the best cocktails of thinking on this sort of thing remains Linda Nochlin’s.)
Take heed, ’cause I’m a lyrical poet
Reviewing Haochen Zhang.
Boston Globe, December 6, 2010.
Also, a CD review from yesterday.
Sweetness and light
Reviewing Pinchas Zuckerman and Yefim Bronfman.
Boston Globe, November 24, 2010.
Big time
Reviewing the Boston Philharmonic’s Bruckner 8.
Boston Globe, November 22, 2010.
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Reviewing the NEC Opera Theatre’s The Magic Flute.
Boston Globe, November 22, 2010.
All of nature talks to me. If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me.
Reviewing the Radius Ensemble.
Boston Globe, November 16, 2010.
The whole megillah
Reviewing Jean Barraqué’s Sonata at the Boston Conservatory New Music Festival.
Boston Globe, November 15, 2010.
I also caught the first concert of the festival; you can read a review here.