Reviewing the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra.
Boston Globe, January 16, 2008.

Reviewing the Boston Pops’ new CD.
Boston Globe, January 6, 2008.

Reviewing three Christmas CDs.
Boston Globe, December 23, 2007.

This article was limited to recent releases, but here’s two other Boston-area holiday recommendations: A Christmas Album, by the Choir of the Church of the Advent, particularly Rodney Lister’s austere, modernist-by-way-of-Schütz Kings and Shepherds; and the Boston Camerata’s An American Christmas, which introduced me to one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, the George Elderkin revival hymn “Jesus the Light of the World.”

Reviewing the Boston Pops.
Boston Globe, December 12, 2007.

Reviewing Gilbert Kalish.
Boston Globe, December 11, 2007.

Reviewing the Tallis Scholars.
Boston Globe, December 10, 2007.

Reviewing Les Voix Baroques and Les Voix Humaines.
Boston Globe, November 26, 2007.

One thought from this concert: I appreciate the rationale behind using only period and period-replica equipment, but maybe it’s time for a miniature early-music Manhattan project to integrate a little bit of modern technology into the instruments so they don’t have to be re-tuned every ten minutes. Especially in a long work like the Membra Jesu Nostri, it’s tough to maintain a suspended mental involvement with everyone stopping between movements for peg-turning.

Reviewing the Boston Chamber Music Society.
Boston Globe, November 22, 2007.

(The harmonic progression in the Bernstein is subdominant to mediant, IV-iii: one of his favorites, particularly in his music for Broadway.)

Reviewing the Radius Ensemble.
Boston Globe, November 19, 2007.

Reviewing the Boston Classical Orchestra and Richard Stoltzman.
Boston Globe, November 19, 2007.