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Leonore Overture

collects the music and arts criticism of Keith Powers

Leonore Overture

May 8
May 8 With Ariodante, Pearlman says good-bye. So does Ed Barker, in the BSO's season finales.

Keith Powers
Opera, Early Music, Classical Music, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Leonore Overture

Apr 28
Apr 28 From CVNA: Only one conductor for 53 years, and now Boston Baroque faces change. Martin Pearlman retires.

Keith Powers
Arts Commentary, Early Music, Classical Music, Boston, Opera

Classical Voice North America

Apr 8
Apr 8 "He was trying to be a good communist; we all were": The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Shostakovich box set

Keith Powers
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Composers, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal music, Tanglewood

Leonore Overture

Mar 31
Mar 31 …the blackbird whistling, or just after: Balanchine, Coltrane, Pearlman

Keith Powers
Boston, Composers, Classical Music, Dance, Opera

Leonore Overture

Mar 18
Mar 18 Two reviews: Boston Lyric Opera's The Seasons with ARC, Peart, Tanowitz; Boston Symphony Orchestra with Abrams, Chen, iFans

Keith Powers
Arts Commentary, Opera, Poetry, Dance, Classical Music, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Leonore Overture

Mar 15
Mar 15 Ballets, Tchaikovsky and Bartok: Gabriela Ortiz, Swan Lake, BSO. At large in February

Keith Powers
Classical Music, Composers, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Visual Arts, Ballet

Leonore Overture

Feb 27
Feb 27 Mark Adamo's Lysistrata: "No" means no—war, that is. OO/BMOP, with Gil Rose, comically portrays the resistance.

Keith Powers
Opera, Classical Music, Composers, Boston, Vocal music

Classical Voice North America

Feb 6
Feb 6 From CVNA: Die tote Stadt, Boston Symphony Orchestra's semi-staging of Erich Korngold's 1920's opera

Keith Powers
Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera, Classical Music, Vocal music

Classical Voice North America

Jan 27
Jan 27 Andris Nelsons leads Eighth and Ninth, as Boston Symphony Orchestra brings its Beethoven cycle to a close.

Keith Powers
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Composers, Boston, Classical Music

Leonore Overture

Jan 21
Jan 21 Beethoven Symphonies Four and Five: the narration continues. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Keith Powers
Classical Music, Composers, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Leonore Overture

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