Reviewing the Firebird Ensemble.
Boston Globe, December 9, 2009.

Reviewing the Boston Early Music Festival’s Acis and Galatea.
Boston Globe, November 30, 2009.

Reviewing the Boston Philharmonic’s all-Wagner program.
Boston Globe, November 23, 2009.

During Benjamin Zander’s leitmotif-tour, I doodled my own Ring synopsis:

Reviewing Katherine Chi and Aleksandar Madzar, playing Stockhausen’s Mantra.
Boston Globe, November 18, 2009.

Reviewing Boston Opera Collaborative’s The Crucible.
Boston Globe, November 17, 2009.

The Globe copy desk is apparently not the Carolyn Leigh fan that I am—the last line of the first paragraph should be, of course, “What good would common sense for it do?”

Reviewing the Boston Classical Orchestra.
Boston Globe, October 29, 2009.

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Globe, October 28, 2009.

Reviewing the Juilliard String Quartet.
Boston Globe, October 27, 2009.

Beethoven’s early believers. The Transcendentalists’ Ludwig Van.
Boston Globe, October 25, 2009.

What you hear is not a chorus. “Rapper’s Delight” and the vestige of minstrelsy.
Boston Globe, October 25, 2009.

Updates in this space have pretty much dropped off the radar, haven’t they? But at least I’m keeping busy. (The first article previews Chapter 4 of the ever-impending book; if I can get “Rapper’s Delight” in there as well, I’ll at least have reached new levels of expressive tangentiality.)

Reviewing the Boston Chamber Music Society.
Boston Globe, October 20, 2009.