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 not every day that you see BSO musicians in small venues playing folk music for tips, and it’s equally rare to see them performing with players whose musical traditions lie wholly outside the realm of so-called classical music.
Stucky’s aim in “Dialoghi” isn’t to torment the cellist. Instead, he intends to endow the cellist with novel powers of expressivity. In this, Stucky succeeds admirably.
Under Ken-David Masur’s direction on Saturday, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 crackled with such vitality and force that past performances of the work now seem pale and tentative by comparison.
All musicians benefit from audience feedback, but James Taylor has his own way of working with an audience to inspire himself and shape his vocal performances in service to his fans.
When the on-air portion of “A Prairie Home Companion” ended at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Keillor, band, and guest singers immediately launched into a record-breaking 1.5-hour encore performance.
In everything she does, Dolly Parton wears her heart on her sleeve, and this, above all else — even above her spectacular musicianship — is what her fans cherish most of all.
The Dover Quartet is one unbelievably tight band. If you had closed your eyes during this concert, you’d have sworn a single musician was somehow playing every instrument.
Since joining the Eagles Band as Principal Conductor in 2014, Carl Jenkins has led the group into ever more advanced musical territory and expanded their repertoire in unexpected ways.
