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PARTY LIKE IT’S 1775

Written by Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

 

Handel & Haydn Society play Mozart and Haydn this weekend

 

Walk into most music shops and the violins hanging on the wall will be strung with steel strings. The highest string on the violin (the E) is particularly prone to sounding metallic when improperly played (think horror-film screech.) Back in Mozart’s day, ...  read more

REVISITING A FAR CRY

Written by Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

With new grant, Boston’s guerilla chamber orchestra plots orchestral future

 

Michael Unterman is a professional concert cellist, but his morning routine is decidedly computer-based.

 

Most days, the musician goes straight to his laptop to answer emails and write blog posts and program notes. As a member of the Boston chamber orchestra ...  read more