As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.
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All eyes will be on the “City of Lights” this month as the world's attention focuses on the Paris Olympics, but classical composers have had Paris in their sights all along!
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Who needs the ice cream man when we have all these summer musical treats? Enjoy this month's Instant Replay before it melts!
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra's President and CEO talks about his earliest discoveries in music, what drew him to Boston as a student, and why he returned to lead the BSO.
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Part dream diary, part chamber piece, and 100% psychedelic fever dream, minimalist maverick Terry Riley's "Autodreamographical Tales" bursts into life with the flexible and frenetic Bang On A Can All-Stars.
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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Mitsuko Uchida for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 in the second concert of the BSO's "Decoding Shostakovich" series.
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On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's Cantata 182, and Pieter Wispelwey performs the Suite No. 5 for solo cello.
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On The Bach Hour, the Artistic Director of one of Boston's cornerstone music ensembles offers a guided tour of the composer's most elaborate and ambitious choral work.
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