Of all the unexpected connections to emerge from Emanuel Ax’s recital at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon, perhaps the most ...
In fact, several of them fully warrant attention, particularly the triptych of political satires Gershwin cooked up with his ...
Take it from Hector Berlioz: organ and orchestra shouldn’t mix.
Admittedly, the Eighth is one of Mahler’s tougher nuts to crack. Completed in 1907 and premiered in 1910, this choral ...
“How can you tell an American?” Washington Irving sings in Act 1 of Kurt Weill’s musical Knickerbocker Holiday. “Has he any distinguishing flavor?” While there wasn’t any Weill on offer at Symphony ...
“Death comes unexpectedly!” roars Karl Malden’s minister in the movie Pollyanna. While that’s not always the case, it can come quickly enough. Just ask Wolfgang Amadé Mozart who, in the course of only ...
Though he was a New Yorker who spent his last year in Hollywood, George Gershwin and Boston have an important history. In 1935, his only opera, Porgy and Bess, premiered at what is now the Emerson ...
“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...