Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision needn’t come at the expense of depth, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s shortish program on Thursday night demonstrated.
Try though they might, not every season opener qualifies as a bona fide “event.” But Music Worcester’s did on Friday night. With the Philip Glass Ensemble on hand to curate a selection of the iconic ...
“Death comes unexpectedly!” roars Karl Malden’s minister in the movie Pollyanna. While that’s not always the case, it can come quickly enough. Just ask Wolfgang Amadé Mozart who, in the course of only ...
“How can you tell an American?” Washington Irving sings in Act 1 of Kurt Weill’s musical Knickerbocker Holiday. “Has he any distinguishing flavor?” While there wasn’t any Weill on offer at Symphony ...