David Noel Edwards is a writer, composer, and recording artist from Canaan, New York. He has been writing for the Berkshire Edge since 2015, mainly about music, but also about books, birds, and reptiles.
Of course, as Sebring warns, the only appropriate recital space for an alphorn is the great outdoors — alps if you have them, the Berkshire hills if you don't.
It takes, in addition to garden-variety virtuosity, some kind of rare mojo to do what Mr. Shaham does, and that is exactly why it is so rewarding to watch him do it.
The musicians' total command of the material on this program is especially noteworthy when you remember that they've been locked up like the rest of us since the time of dinosaurs.
A Berkshire summer without professor Yudkin's pre-concert lectures would be like a cheeseless apple pie or a squeezeless kiss: pleasant enough, but crucially bereft of mojo.
The upcoming Boston Pops July 4 broadcast is not all reruns. It will also feature newly created content, including the entire Pops viola section playing "Over the Rainbow" and a virtual performance of Pops Conductor Laureate John Williams' “Summon the Heroes.”
At a moment of considerable gloom, the BSO essentially made its own silver lining - transforming bad news into good and gladdening the hearts of a few thousand surprised Bostonians. It's something the BSO is really good at.
Mr. Gonzalez has ballet fresh in his mind fairly often, and the things he has to say about composers and choreographers are far too numerous to fit into a single lecture.
