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.
It's hard to say why so many people with an affinity for neither the gospel nor gospel music weep when they listen to Aretha sing the gospel classics, but Mick Jagger could probably explain it, because he was present at the 1972 recording session for "Amazing Grace."
He's bringing a few bottles of his own wine for the pre-concert party. (No kidding. He actually has his own wine label, and the V.I.P. pre-concert party will showcase several of its offerings.)
The BSO's 10-day series of free pop-up concerts will culminate Sunday, Feb. 16, at 3 p.m. in a performance at Boston's Symphony Hall under the direction of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Germeshausen Youth and Family Conductor.
The good news is that the orchestra has booked a series of free pop-up concerts during the same time period, and one of them will be held Sunday, Feb. 9.
Mark Volpe personifies a family spirit at the BSO, and it's something you can see for yourself if you are sitting anywhere in the Koussevitzky Music Shed in July or August a few moments before a concert begins.
The sound of Carlile's voice, reminiscent at times of k.d. lang or early Tanya Tucker, is sufficiently distinctive to immediately identify itself no matter what the musical genre
Reading music notation from a tablet or laptop isn't terribly unusual. But doing it with handwritten scores? That is something else altogether, especially when you're trying to decipher Ludwig van Beethoven's horrific penmanship.
The cows at Churchtown Dairy are not only receptive to the Christmas carols, but they seem to have a distinct preference for certain songs over others.
But in the casual atmosphere of the Koussevitzky Music Shed, it's easy to forget that all these people are Grammy Award-winning rock stars disguised as ordinary folk.
With the second summer of TLI programming coming up in just 200 days or so, it's the perfect time to nibble (binge?) on party food and peruse TLI's summer schedule.
The problem with making a list of Tanglewood summer highlights is that almost nothing on the schedule qualifies as a lowlight, not even soloists or composers we've never heard of.
Orchestra's founder Henry Lee Higginson's desire was to make great music accessible to "any one and everyone likely to care for such things," and the BSO in recent years seems to have re-doubled its efforts to make Higginson's vision a reality
