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Trans-Atlantic passages : Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933
\"Trans-Atlantic Passages : Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933 deals with one of the greatest of American music critics writing about one of the greatest of American Orchestras during a time of great change. Philip Hale (1854-1934) put Boston on the Transatlantic map in terms of the music world and its circuits of exchange. Professor Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of Hale's contributions to music criticism and to the role the Boston Symphony was able to play in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Moral fire
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: \"If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.\" Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities—Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives—whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.
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A mystical concerto, lofting the violin in prayer
Gubaidulina wrote \"Offertorium\" for the formidable violinist Gidon Kremer, who championed it widely and recorded it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Thunder unheard: Jurowski leads Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony
The Boston Symphony Orchestra had programmed the Fourth only twice since then, until Thursday night, when the Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski made his debut and, with cold-eyed precision and not a single gesture wasted, lead the orchestra in a devastating performance.
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Faust's journey to hell, in orchestral Technicolor
With all of the last-minute cancellations, the BSO has not exactly been a stress-free place to be an assistant in recent years, and Lehninger, like all of the others, had his own trial by fire in March 2011, when he replaced Levine on short notice to lead the world premiere of a thorny violin concerto by Harrison Birtwistle.
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Tackling Dvorak's Violin Concerto, with electricity and bite
[...] not so simple in the case of the evening's highlight: an exceptional performance of Dvorak's Violin Concerto by Frank Peter Zimmermann.
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BSO gamely plays on after latest setback
Placed in that unhappy position again, the BSO stayed close to home and tapped John Oliver, founder and conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, to lead the three Symphony Hall concerts.
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BSO's new relationship with Deneve promising but tentative
There were a few unsettled moments and flawed balances in Stravinsky's neo-classical Concerto for Piano and Winds, in which the composer actually channels Baroque styles through a thoroughly modern prism.
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New surprises from the works of two masters
The concerto came off as a genuine dialogue between equals, in part because Ax played with the kind of tonal beauty that could match the heft of the orchestra's sound.
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A steady hand guides a kinetic French program with BSO
French repertoire has long been one of Dutoit's specialties, so it is perhaps not a surprise that this week's mostly French program - consisting of Debussy's \"La Mer,\" Henri Dutilleux's cello concerto \"Tout un monde lointain . . . \", and Strauss's Suite from \"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme\" - came off so well last night in Symphony Hall.
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