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COLD FRONT COMING IN: MARTIN PHILLIPPS OF THE CHILLS

Written by TIM BUGBEE Posted February 18, 2019 Filed Under: DigThis, Interviews, MUSIC

 

Few regions can boast an outsized influence on the greater musical culture more so than New Zealand, tucked away at the bottom of the earth thousands of miles from anywhere else. With Flying Nun (and lesser known labels such as Propeller, Ripper, South Indies and Xpressway), the country of three ...  read more

Filed Under: DigThis, Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: Flying Nun, Martin Phillipps, New Zealand, preview, The Chills, The Middle East

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1775

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted January 24, 2019 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

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: classical, Handel + Haydn Society, Interview, Mozart, Orchestral, preview

HOME ALONE WITH THE BOSTON POPS

Written by JACOB SCHICK Posted December 28, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Photo by Stu Rosner. Courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

 

Q&A w/ Kevin McDonald and two high school chorus members

 

On December 29-30, the Boston Pops will perform the score to the Christmas classic movie Home Alone in sync with the film on screen at Symphony Hall. The Pops will be joined ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Concert, Film, Music, preview, Soundtrack

NEVER A DHOL MOMENT: 15TH ANNUAL BOSTON BHANGRA COMPETITION

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted November 15, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

Amit Bhambi has been around Bhangra all his life. The colorful costumes, the upbeat music, the expressions and energetic movements—all of it is familiar to him. When he asks Americans unfamiliar with the Punjabi-style dance what they think of it?

 

“They ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: bhangra, Boston, competition, Dance, orpheum theatre, preview

KEITH LOCKHART ON HALLOWEEN AT SYMPHONY HALL

Written by JACOB SCHICK Posted October 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

This Halloween, the Boston Pops will perform the original score of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho in sync with the film on screen at Symphony Hall. DigBoston caught up with Pops conductor and musical director Keith Lockhart ahead of this very special event.

 

Why did you decide ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: BSO, Film, Keith Lockhart, Music, Orchestra, performing arts, preview, Psycho

BOSTON’S FIRST ANNUAL ART BOOK FAIR

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted October 11, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Kristin Texeira screenprint

Celebrating DIY culture in the Hub

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Aperture, Art, book fair, books, Boston Center for the Arts, Carpenter Center, MIT Press, Phaidon, preview, visual art

OPEN NIGHTS: LAYING OUT THE PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ART OPENINGS AHEAD FOR FALL

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 22, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Calendar, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

It's going to be a good season.

Filed Under: A+E, Calendar, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, A.R.T., An Audience with Meow Meow, arts emerson, BCA, Billy Elliot the Musical, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, Calderwood Pavilion, Casa Valentina, Company One, Copenhagen, courtney love, Dry Land, Einstein’s Dreams, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, fall arts, Handel and Haydn Society, ICA, In the Penal Colony, kansas city choir boy, La Boheme, MFA, Mozart, Mr. Joy, New Repertory Theatre, Nick Offerman, Oberon, Othello, Philip Glass, Pinchas Zukerman, preview, Puccini, requiem, RISE, ron swanson, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Sister Act, SpeakEasy Stage, the strand theatre, todd almond, West Side Story

FALL PREVIEW 2014: THEATER PICKS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 8, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides

Theater geeks, mark your calendars …

THE FORGETTING CURVE

BRIDGE REPERTORY THEATER

In 1953, a young man agreed to undergo an experimental surgery hoping to be cured of epilepsy, and devastatingly, the treatment destroyed his ability to make new memories. To kick off their second season, Bridge Rep brings the ...  read more

Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides Tagged With: arts, Fall, performing, picks, preview, theater

FALL PREVIEW 2014: A PIE TO FALL FOR

Written by SCOTT MURRY Posted October 8, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides

It’s a real downer when summer promptly abandons us in September. It’s a cruel time of year, but keeping our spirits warm as the cold weather returns is Petsi Pies. From their Beacon Street bakery just beyond Inman Square, founder Renee “Petsi” McLeod and crew will soon be bring back the seasonal ...  read more

Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides Tagged With: Fall, PETSI PIES, preview, SOMERVILLE

FALL PREVIEW 2014

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 8, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides

When Henry David Thoreau wrote “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion,” he was basically saying (depending on how deep you read into it) that the life of a city dweller, with all one’s material possessions mandated by the opulence a own ...  read more

Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides Tagged With: arts, drink, eat, Fall, oktoberfest, performing, pie, preview, restaurant

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