“I hope that Your Imperial Highness will continue especially to practice writing down your ideas straight away at the piano; for this purpose there should be a small table beside the piano. In this way […]
“I take the liberty of sending to Your Electoral Highness various musical pieces… composed by my dear pupil Beethoven, who has been graciously entrusted to me. I flatter myself that these pieces will be kindly […]
MIT announced that BCMS Artistic Director and violist Marcus Thompson has been awarded its highest faculty honor, the title of Institute Professor. He joins a small group of Institute Professors at MIT, now numbering 13, along […]
Maurizio Nannucci So reads the neon sign on the staircase foyer wall of the Linde Family Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The work was acquired in 2011 with funds from its 2010-2011 […]
Spring is coming, Spring, my joy; Now I will make ready to go journeying […]
“…a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” Rossitor W. Raymond, A Commendatory Prayer For our March, April, and May concerts we return to Sanders Theatre at 7:30 in time to herald the return […]
Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performed a recital through Groupmuse a week prior to our French Connection concert. After an evening of solo pieces by Fauré, Debussy and Ravel, he ended the program with three preludes by […]
The French Connection (Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin) Mozart, Mostly (His view of the Bachs and M. Haydn; Schnittke’s view of him!) In this season of “change” we began the fall with three concerts at […]
Music of the homophonic-melodic style of composition, that is, music with a main theme, accompanied by and based on harmony, produces material by, as I call it, developing variation. This means that variation of the […]
“In the course of time the distance between sources diminishes. Beethoven, for instance, did not need to study all that Mozart studied–Mozart, not all that Handel–Handel, not all that Palestrina–because they had already absorbed the knowledge […]
