When it comes to the oratorio literature, Mendelssohn’s “Elijah’’ is right up there in popularity with Handel’s “Messiah.’’ But the Boston Symphony Orchestra has over the years left it to others to maintain the work’s prominence, having presented it only... |
He was a guitarist with such awesome, inexplicable technique that he left his peers with jaws agape, ready to abandon their instruments. Acclaimed as an innovator of a quintessentially American style, he first found fame in Europe. And since his premature death, his legend has grown exponentially along with his recorded legacy, with more of his... |
After years in the shadow of Boston’s major classical music schools, the Longy School of Music is looking to change course, transitioning from a small institution to a more significant player, perhaps as a satellite of Bard College in New York. |
RUSSELL SHERMAN The eloquent, independent-minded pianist begins a three-part series of recitals devoted to the keyboard works of Haydn and Schoenberg, as part of Emmanuel Music’s season-long exploration of those two composers. 4 p.m., March 28, $30-$50, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, 617-536-3356, www.emmanuelmusic.org. |
SEABEAR (above) “We Built a Fire’’ is the name of this Icelandic band’s new album, but it’s also a commentary on the warm sounds that Seabear finds in the sweet spot between indie rock and chamber folk. 9 p.m. March 28. $12. T.T. the Bear’s. 617-492-2327, www.ticketweb.com |
At only 17, Ben Nuzzo is already making a splash on both sides of the Atlantic as a composer. Nuzzo, a Newton native, is a senior at Eton College in England, where a group of students from Massachusetts’ Concord Academy performed the ballet “Triptych,’’ set to Nuzzo’s original score, earlier this... |
AUSTIN, Texas — Boston bands are no strangers to success at South by Southwest, one of the country’s most celebrated and longest-running music festivals. The falsetto of Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos rang out as one of the most talked about sounds at SXSW 2009, and Magic Magic, Cassavettes, and Sarah Borges and... |
A month before the new House of Blues opened on Lansdowne Street last year, concert impresario Don Law made a lofty prediction. As president of the New England division of Live Nation , which owns the House of Blues chain, Law said the venue could book as many as 300 shows its inaugural year, making it far busier than the ... |
Pop superstar Beyoncé made history last night by winning six Grammys in one evening, the most ever by a female artist, but 20-year-old country phenom Taylor Swift took home the biggest prize, album of the year. |