Singing the Praises of Ann Howard Jones
Watch this video on YouTube In the video above, Ann Howard Jones discusses the art of conducting. Video by Devin Hahn In her many decades in the choral world, Ann Howard Jones has had her share of...
View ArticleIcons Among Us: The John R. Silber Symphonic Organ
Watch this video on YouTube Watch BU’s 7,500-pipe symphonic organ fill the Metcalf Ballroom with waves of sound. Photos by Kalman Zabarsky There aren’t too many musical instruments large enough to...
View ArticleFrom Symphony Hall to MTV
When Sylvana Joyce Opris graduated from BU, she knew only one thing for certain about her future: somehow her life would revolve around music. The young singer and pianist is now front woman for a band...
View ArticleStudents Pay Nothing for Concerts, Steep Discounts for Faculty and Staff
This summer, Boston University students can attend Boston Pops concerts for free, and faculty and staff can receive discounted prices by using their Boston Symphony Orchestra College Card. The cards...
View ArticleFree Classical Concert Tonight
Pack a picnic and head out after work tonight for a free concert at the Hatch Shell courtesy of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Founded in 2001 by noted conductor Charles Ansbacher, the BLO is one of...
View ArticleBU Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Chorus at Symphony Hall Tonight
Musically they hail from separate worlds—one composition is 20th century, atonal, and compact, the other 19th century Romantic, reverent, sprawling, and operatic. But the works being performed at the...
View ArticleBU Launches Virtual Concert Hall
When Melanie Burbules (CFA’14) walked onto the stage of Symphony Hall last spring to perform in a BU production of Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, both of her parents were watching, despite the fact that...
View ArticleBoston Baroque: What’s Old Is New
An embattled President Richard Nixon was clinging to his second term and American Graffiti dominated movie marquees when young harpsichordist and composer Martin Pearlman gathered a small group of...
View ArticleBU Takes Stage at Symphony Hall Tonight
German composer Carl Orff’s iconic 1936 choral work Carmina Burana is a lush, dramatic crowd-pleaser that is increasingly cannibalized by TV and Hollywood for its ability to raise goose bumps. The...
View ArticleBU Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus Star at Symphony Hall
Commissioned in the wake of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death, composer Paul Hindemith’s 1946 work When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (A Requiem for those we love) was based on the poem of...
View ArticleCFA Alum Strikes Deep Chord with First Four Notes
In the two centuries since Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his Fifth Symphony, the piece’s iconic opening has etched itself into the human imagination. Those first four notes have become a kind of Rorschach...
View ArticleMusic under the Stars
When the Boston Landmarks Orchestra was established in 2001, its mission was to provide top-notch orchestral music, free of charge, to Boston residents. Since 2007, the professional nonprofit orchestra...
View ArticleSymphony Hall Once Again Hosts BU’s Symphonic Chorus, Symphony Orchestra
In what has become a celebrated tradition, the BU Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus return to Boston’s Symphony Hall tonight, with a program of powerful, poetic works by Ralph Vaughan Williams,...
View ArticleCFA Symphony Hall Concert Honors Marathon Victims
When Ann Howard Jones decided to take on Hector Berlioz’s Requiem—the French Romantic composer’s Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5—for tonight’s annual Boston University spring concert at Symphony Hall,...
View ArticleCFA Presents Britten’s War Requiem
Juxtaposing the incisive antiwar verse of English World War I poet and soldier Wilfred Owen with Latin text from the Catholic requiem Mass, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, first performed in 1962,...
View ArticleCFA Brings Mahler’s Resurrection to Symphony Hall
In the great late-Romantic composer Gustav Mahler’s program notes for a 1901 performance of his Symphony No. 2, he sets the scene for the first movement, the allegro maestoso: “We are standing near the...
View ArticleDiverse and Dynamic Performers Converge on Copley Square
Starting tomorrow, Copley Square will be transformed into a showcase for music, dance, and family entertainment with the return of Boston Summer Arts Weekend, the annual arts celebration sponsored by...
View ArticleBU Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Chorus at Symphony Hall Tonight
The Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus return to Boston’s Symphony Hall tonight to perform Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D minor and Igor Stravinsky’s Perséphone. The concert marks...
View ArticleCFA Musicians Perform Beethoven’s Ninth at Symphony Hall Tonight
Widely considered by many to be among the greatest compositions in the western musical canon, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will be performed tonight at Symphony Hall by the Boston University Symphony...
View ArticleArthur Fiedler Night at the Boston Pops
Tonight, the Boston Pops will honor legendary maestro Arthur Fiedler (Hon.’51), who led the Pops from 1930 until his death in 1979, at the annual Arthur Fiedler Night at Symphony Hall. Led by current...
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