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Living the dream

De Niro Pops Off Dept.
Movie stars aren’t the usual Symphony Hall crowd, but last week, two dark-suited ushers swung open the doors of the Hatch Room and out poured Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Cherry Jones.
By LLOYD SCWARTZ | May 26, 2010

Dream on

Heinrich Schütz’s swan song; the Pops’ 125th-anniversary commission
Some lovers of religious music consider Heinrich Schütz even greater than Bach, who was born 13 years after Schütz’s death.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | May 27, 2010

Photos: Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, and more with the Boston Pops

The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers , Symphony Hall, until June 20
The Pops pays tribute to John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy by combining quotes from their speeches with original text and video, accompanied by a dramatic orchestral and choral score.
By BOSTON POPS | May 21, 2010

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Thinking outside the Woodbox

Fiddler on the Rise Dept.
As Daniel Bernard Roumain was growing up in Margate, a small city in southeast Florida with a large Haitian population, he felt playing the violin was "a calling."
By MATT TEMPESTA | March 17, 2010

Stopping time

The BSO, Peter Maxwell Davies, BCMS, BMOP, Mark Morris, and Christian Tetzlaff
BSO music director James Levine has returned to Symphony Hall for the first time since October, when back surgery put him out of commission.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | February 02, 2010

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Interview: Keith Lockhart

America's bandleader prepares for another Fourth
"There's always some set of events, positive or negative, that color the lens that people see the Fourth of July through."
By JIM SULLIVAN | July 06, 2009

Dancing in a new direction

Notes from 'Ballets Russes 2009'
The 100th birthday of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes prompted the expected centennial tributes in Boston: a "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1909–1929: Twenty Years That Changed the World of Art" symposium and exhibition at Harvard University in April, and a "Ballets Russes 2009" festival this month.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 14, 2010

Three’s a charm

The 802 Tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, August 24, 2008
Muhly, Amidon, and Bartlett are all VT-to-NY transplants and long-time collaborators.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | August 26, 2008

Night music

The Pops aces Sondheim
Classic musicals make substantial enterprises —this is now the best thing the Pops does.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | July 01, 2008

All Dolled up

Amanda Palmer and the Boston Pops, Symphony Hall, June 19, 2008
Last night, Amanda Palmer kicked off this season of the Boston Pops EdgeFest.
By RACHEL HOLLIDAY SMITH | June 20, 2008

Russian revel?

Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 23, 2008

Boston music news: May 9, 2008

Notes on Unbusted and the Dresden Dolls
The album recorded in 2005 by Unbusted— the Martha’s Vineyard core of the Billionaires — has indeed seen the light of day.
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 06, 2008

Celtic tigers

Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again
At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2008

Broadway's Best at Pops

WGBH Boston Video
This DVD represents some of the best of public broadcasting and a bit of the worst.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | December 10, 2007

Welcome to Boston

Better than a Duck Tour
You’re one of us now.
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER | September 04, 2007

Orchestral maneuvers

Paul Oakenfold and Hem with the Boston Pops
On stage, Paul had saluted scratching in early hip-hop culture by manipulating a 12-inch record briefly and then holding it up for the crowd to see.
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 29, 2007

Send in the clowns

Chorus pro Musica’s verismo duo; the Boston Early Music Festival; and Carousel at the Pops
Boston newcomers proved that even without scenery or traditional costumes, these operas can pack a wallop.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | June 19, 2007

Folk heroics

Or, how M. Ward became such a big deal
“Why is he such a big deal right now?” a friend asked with some exasperation earlier this month when I mentioned that I had a phone date with M. Ward. M. Ward, "To Go Home" (mp3)
By MIKAEL WOOD | June 19, 2007

Boston music news: June 22, 2007

Notes on the Boston Pops, Darkbuster, and Beatlejuice
Keith Lockhart doesn’t think the Edgefest mix is much different from when the Pops played with Duke Ellington.
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 19, 2007

Working girl

Amanda Palmer reflects on the Dresden Dolls’ breakthrough year
It’s no surprise that the big local winners in our Best Music Poll tend also to be the hardest working bands and artists.
By MATT ASHARE | June 06, 2007

War and peace

Cowboy Junkies expand their reach
More often than not, when an artist gets airplay covering a decades-old song, it’s out of desperation — the sign of a career on its way down.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | May 08, 2007

Missing Memory

"Magic" program hits its time limit
The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s “The Magic of Christmas” performance includes a disappearing act.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | December 13, 2006

Welcome to Paradise

Green Day at the Hatch Shell, September, 1994
This article originally appeared in the September 16, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By MATT ASHARE | October 25, 2006

Opera, opera, opera

At Santa Fe and Tanglewood and in New York
Every performance at Santa Fe was packed, and few subscribers left unhappy.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | August 15, 2006

Orch-rock

My Morning Jacket meet the Pops
Kentucky quintet My Morning Jacket, no strangers to mixing a spectrum of musical genres will push even more buttons on the musical blender when they take the stage with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall this week. My Morning Jacket performs with the Boston Pops
By KERRY L. SMITH | July 14, 2006

On top of the Pops

My Morning Jacket drown out the house band at Symphony Hall
If you look up "surreal" in the dictionary, you might find a picture of a full orchestra fronted by five longhairs in tuxes.
By WILL SPITZ | June 22, 2006