Music
by Bryce Lambert
December 5, 2009
The Chiara Quartet, in-residence at Harvard’s music department, performed the first of six-concert series surveying Beethoven’s complete string quartets. Vance Koven reviewed it on the Musical Intelligencer. The concerts continue February 12th and April 9th. Free tickets are available in advance from the Harvard Box Office, but as long as you show up at Paine [...]
Music
by Bryce Lambert
October 22, 2009
According to today’s Globe, James Levine will not return to the BSO tonight as planned to conduct the first concert in this season’s complete Beethoven symphony cycle. From what I’ve seen, I’ve enjoyed the guest conductors, particularly Ludovic Morlot’s recent program. The local in me would have liked a box set of the complete symphonies [...]