Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Globe, July 15, 2009.

Reviewing James Levine and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.
Boston Globe, July 13, 2009.

Concert opera is always a touch surreal—hey, all those Meistersinger are in James Bond tuxedos!—but Morris and Botha had the inspired idea to put their on-stage drinking water in old-fashioned beer steins.

Update (7/13): Lisa Hirsch noticed that I called baritone Hans-Joachim Ketelsen a tenor, which is the sort of thing that happens when I move clauses around one too many times. (For those of you keeping score at home, that’s two embarrassing slips so far this year—giving me a fielding average of .926.)

Further update: now fixed.

Reviewing the SICPP Iditarod.
Boston Globe, June 23, 2009.

Reviewing OperaHub’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea.
Boston Globe, June 20, 2009.

Reviewing Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Boston Globe, June 16, 2009.

Reviewing Pieter Wispelwey and Kristian Bezuidenhout.
Boston Globe, June 15, 2009.

Reviewing the BEMF Chamber Ensemble and Les Esprits Inséparables.
Boston Globe, June 13, 2009.

I also spent Thursday afternoon at a BEMF Fringe Concert by Newport Baroque, directed by Paul Cienniwa, who was in the same Cub Scout troop as me. No kidding! An elegant visit with sonatas by Handel, Leclair, and Marcello, with recorder player Héloïse Degrugillier and Paul’s wife Audrey on cello. (Go buy their new CD.)

Reviewing Chorus pro Musica’s Turandot.
Boston Globe, June 3, 2009.

Reviewing the Boston Microtonal Society’s 20th Anniversary concert.
Boston Globe, May 13, 2009.

Reviewing Boston Musica Viva.
Boston Globe, May 4, 2009.