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CONCERT REVIEW: The Kronos Quartet sparks the Next Festival of Emerging Artists at PS21

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists also has its eyes on the future. An annual event founded by composer-conductor Peter Askim in 2013, it brings together young like-minded string players and cutting-edge composers for a week of intensive preparation followed by a pair of performances.

REVIEW: BUTI tuba recital at Trinity Church in Lenox

After watching these guys suck up gallons of air and force it through all those yards of brass tubing, "Ride of the Valkyries" will never be the same.  

Circa at Jacob’s Pillow: Gravity-defying virtuosity on the edge of possibility

Opening night performance of Circa at Jacob's Pillow left reviewers Carolyn and Eli Newberger awestruck and moved.

Aston Magna opens 45th season with ‘Music for Forbidden Dances’

The program blends the magic of tango, chacanas and sarabands – tracing the dance forms’ origins in Latin America from baroque times to the present -- with early music selections that are the hallmark of Aston Magna.

REVIEW: Virtuosity of Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on display at Close Encounters with Music

Members of the LAGQ certainly know how to put a concert program together. They’re as good at this as they are at playing their instruments.

REVIEW: At Close Encounters with Music, an intimate evening with Bach

Enjoying Bach in full-blown glorious detail is something both Yehuda Hanani and Kivie Cahn-Lipman have been doing as a matter of course all their lives. They revel in it.

DANCE: Alonzo King’s ‘LINES,’ sinuous exploration of existence

It was heartfelt, honest, and original expression by strikingly beautiful, muscular, tall, linear humans to music of depth and profundity. Notably absent were rote patterns, fixed poses, and showy acrobatics.

Apollo’s Fire to light up Tanglewood with ‘Night at Bach’s Coffee House’

Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichordist and passionate conductor of Apollo's Fire, considers "the most distinctive thing about our style is that we are really focused on the concept of Affekt, the idea that the music is there to move the emotional mood of the listeners.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu and Hershey -- The back story: As a young poodle, Lulu demonstrated discriminating taste in music and art.
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