Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Headlines from the Web

Troppo, Chance infused crowds with dose of heat

9/6/2008 6:20:23 AM

Source: Chippewa Herald, Wisconsin

Van Cliburn to play

9/6/2008 12:04:54 AM

Source: Charleston Post and Courier

BBCNOW/Otaka; Quartet for the End of Time

9/5/2008 11:24:24 PM

Source: The Guardian

Onegin a dazzling success

9/5/2008 7:39:59 PM

Source: Houston Chronicle

No mystery for Otaka

9/5/2008 10:15:17 AM

Source: This is London

2008-09 season to get under way in October

9/5/2008 5:05:58 AM

Source: Tri-City Herald

A master of amazing music

9/3/2008 9:00:31 PM

Source: New Zealand Herald

Violinist survives a very real trial by fire

9/3/2008 6:22:45 AM

Source: Orange County Register

Star Serenade: A live concert from the APO includes Brahms’s Serenade No 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, on Music Alive.

9/3/2008 3:14:11 AM

Source: Radio New Zealand

SCO/Knussen

9/3/2008 12:38:28 AM

Source: The Guardian

Blogs

Sleeping Beauty at Miller

9/3/2008 9:20:32 PM

Source: About Last Night: chron.com

Onegin Casting

9/1/2008 8:13:56 PM

Source: About Last Night: chron.com

Latest Articles

Lukewarm

Trey McIntyre at the Pillow
Are we in the midst of a dance boom?
By JEFFREY GANTZ | August 27, 2008

North Shore's snazzy revival of contact

Plus, Gurnet’s Essential Self-Defense
For a Broadway show, contact is closer to Twyla Tharp than George M. Cohan.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 17, 2008

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 21, 2008

Big pond, little pond

Swan Lake in Boston and Providence
Swan Lake is ballet’s prima ballerina because, 131 years after its Moscow premiere, it’s still poised on pointe.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 07, 2008

Amateur overture

Harvard's Last Minute Orchestra takes on the 1812
Even at Harvard, with its many time-honored traditions, the best rituals involve kazoos. Lots of kazoos.
By BARRY THOMPSON | May 06, 2008

Oppositions

The Kirov's Balanchine at City Center
The end of a three-week, thousands-of-miles-from-home season is never the right time to assess a dance company.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 12, 2008

Love prevails

Festival Ballet’s emotional Swan Lake
Swan Lake is second only to The Nutcracker as a familiar entity for those with a nodding acquaintance of ballet.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | April 23, 2008

All over again

Brahms from Levine and Kissin, Emmanuel’s Bach B-minor Mass, the Cantata Singers’ Kurt Weill cabaret
The Boston Symphony Orchestra program for last week’s four concerts was a familiar one.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | April 15, 2008

Mexico City abuzz with Beantowners

A report from the International Mexico City Festival of Contemporary Cinema
Where’s New York? Where’s LA?
By GERALD PEARY | April 07, 2008

Pas de divorce

Opera House captures Boston Ballet’s heart
It’s been a roller-coaster six weeks at Boston Ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 02, 2008

Russians on the run

Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at Sanders Theatre, February 24, 2008
Zander balanced the pathos and the passion here the way you have to balance the rose and the distaff/thorn in The Sleeping Beauty , and that was no small thing.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 26, 2008

Streets where you live

A loverly My Fair Lady ; The Missionary Position at MRT
The 2001 National Theatre of Great Britain/Cameron Mackintosh production further sharpens the Shavian edge of this beloved musical.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 12, 2008

Twinkle, twinkle

Boston Ballet’s ‘Night of Stars’
For some 15 years now, Boston Ballet has danced like a major international ballet company, and Mikko Nissinen wants to be sure everybody’s aware of that.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 31, 2008

Too much too soon?

Classical goodies for 2008
Two of the most exciting concerts announced for this winter are on the same date, February 24.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | January 31, 2008

Urban cheek

BalletRox's Nutcracker
There are several meanings to the word popular, and BalletRox’s The Urban Nutcracker satisfies the truest of them.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 11, 2007

Baritone bliss?

Дмитрий Хворостовский at Symphony Hall
Ну, что, как вы — oops, sorry, that’s what happens when the conversation around you is all-Russian-all-the-time.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 11, 2007

More than child’s play

Boston Ballet’s grown-up Nutcracker
After a slow start, The Nutcracker went on to become the most-watched ballet of the 20th century.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2007

Holiday favorites

Revive the tradition
For many of us, the holidays would not be the same without the familiar melodies and musical traditions we’ve grown to love.
By EMILY PARKHURST | November 28, 2007

Low rent

Boston Lyric Opera’s latest La bohème; plus Collage’s Berio, and Markus Stenz at the BSO
With good singing, acting, and conducting, a stage director for La bohème can afford to keep out of the way, which is pretty much what Ocel does.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | November 06, 2007

Dark victory

Boston Ballet in Serenade and La Sylphide
It’s a good pairing: together, Serenade and La Sylphide write an essay on doomed love
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 31, 2007

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