Greek violin virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos performs a modernist and French program infused with radical interpretative choices and the harmonic and compositional inventiveness of Debussy and Ravel.
Read articleBreathing space in the heat of summer — #Berkshireweekend
We’re sharing iced coffee and a palm-sized blueberry pie — my old friend Teresa is here for the weekend, and we have been getting lost at Tanglewood.
Read articleComposer Valerie Coleman imagines new worlds in music
Acclaimed composer Valerie Coleman considers the expanding future of orchestral music as she honors the musicians and composers who have opened the way.
Read articleGenerations of musicians honor BSO harpist Ann Hobson Pilot
Renowned harpist Ann Hobson Pilot and composer-flutist Valerie Coleman are sitting in a pavilion with windows clear enough for the afternoon sunlight and the sound of classical musicians at practice to stream in …
Read articleSculpture surfaces in Edith Wharton’s garden
The sea serpent in the garden is unmistakeable — rippling vintage translucent blue. I wonder what Edith Wharton would have said to a creature as long and sleek as a sailing canoe.
Read articleYou can’t stop the beat — #Berkshireweekend
High point in the last week? We’ve had so many as summer hits the Berkshires, even in these chaotic days. Scarlet, my first summer intern, has been getting me out to explore …
Read articleMen on the Amistad speak out in Kevin Young’s ‘Ardency’
Fifty-three people of the Mendi from Sierra Leone captured a slave ship. Each one of them had been kidnapped from a rice field or a house where he slept beside his wife.
Read articleCharles Coe brings poetry to Close Encounters (flashback)
Cambridge poet Charles Coe can write with the crowd-surging energy of hot summer nights, soul and sweat … and with the warmth of holding hands.
Read articleWriters revive lost languages at the Mount
The stories move from inlets of red mangrove and sea grass to worn tarmac in northern Alaska on long nights, and a family looking across city skylines between Tehran and Boston …
Read articleJames Van der Zee envisions the Harlem Renaissance
Near his photography studio in Harlem, James Van Der Zee could have heard Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey sing the blues …
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