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Strung Out: BMOP’s “Strings Attached”

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Boston lowbrow attends another great concert of one of Boston’s best musical assets.

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BMOP: Band in Boston

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The BMOP continued its season last Friday with their Band in Boston concert, celebrating 20th and 21st century music for wind ensemble with two repertoire mainstays by Stravinsky and Percy Grainger, as well as some newer compositions by Harold Meltzer, Wayne Peterson, and Joseph Schwantner. Robert Kirzinger’s excellent program notes make the case that band [...]

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BMOP Bangs Big

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I’m later to it than I’d like to be, but I wanted to offer some words on BMOP‘s Big Bang concert last Friday in addition to my earlier brief post of anticipatory excitement. The name of the concert is a clever pun. It not only refers to the percussion pieces that made up the program, [...]

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BMOP Makes Some Noise up in Jordan

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The BMOP is back. After a bit of a break following their excellent Voices of America Festival, they’ll be tearing up Jordan Hall Friday night with an ambitious concert entitled Big Bang. On the program: Edgard Varèse: Ionization Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro George Antheil: Ballet mécanique This is jarring music that involves bizarre large-scale [...]

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BMOP and Florestan Sing Barber

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On Sunday Boston’s, if not America’s, premiere new music orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, in conjunction with the Florestan Recital Project, concluded their weekend long festival ‘Voice of America.’ Double billed concerts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday paired Florestan performances of Samuel Barber songs (entitled ‘Barberfest’) with BMOP concerts of American vocal music. Tufts’ [...]