Had a lot of fun going through the Stones' recent live recordings, both recent and archival, as a warmup for next week's show at Gillette, May 30. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/art…

This is a wonderful analysis of a monument in the repertoire, though I renew my objection to Ethan’s contention that Jarrett was a lousy composer

Tonight’s agenda: free concert by three masters - vijay iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey

Today’s agenda: final installment of this spectacular series of concerts, including a world premiere by Tyshawn Sorey

Tonight’s agenda: this appealingly offbeat program

Remembering back to the last eclipse and the Flat Earth Society demonstration at MIT that day

New NYT 5 Classical Music Reviews You Can Read Right Now - Alongside Zachary Woolfe, sethcolterwalls.bsky.social & Oussama Zahr, I contributed a few words on Sony's 20-CD Copland Conducts Copland box and an archival Bruckner 7 from Haitink nytimes.com/2024/03/28/art…

Tonight’s agenda

Now playing (RIP Maurizio Pollini):

“Pollini was that rare pianist who compelled listeners to think deeply. He was an artist of rigor & reserve whose staunch assurance, uncompromising directness and steadfast dedication to his ideals were evidence of what Daniel Barenboim called a very high ethical regard of music”

'There are no limits to what you can do on the piano.'

I wrote the New York Times obituary of Maurizio Pollini, the modernist master of his instrument, who died this morning at 82.
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The great Maurizio Pollini, one of the outstanding musicians of the postwar era, has died at 82. He was unmatched in wide swaths of repertory, from the late Beethoven sonatas to Chopin to the stream of modernism running from Schoenberg to Nono.

La Scala mourns the loss of Maurizio Pollini, one of the great musicians of our time. | La Scala piange la scomparsa di Maurizio Pollini, uno dei grandi musicisti del nostro tempo.

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The Boston Symphony celebrates the orchestral music of Wayne Shorter this week w/Clark Rundell, esperanza spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dayna Stephens & Leo Genovese. bit.ly/4cggIol

Tonight’s agenda: Orchestre de Paris & Klaus Mäkelä

For today's Globe Magazine I picked a half-dozen worthy concert events for spring in New England, including Nathalie Joachim, Symphony New Hampshire, Vermont Symphony Orchestra (w/a Nico Muhly premiere) & Council, the new duo featuring Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto bit.ly/48T5Olk

finally, the right time to do this

On Philip Glass Solo: 'These performances are, I can think of no other way to say it, wonderfully human.' - David Weininger, The New York Times
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For Boston Globe Arts I wrote about what I heard in Seiji's final years Boston Symphony - mostly from the cheap seats in Symphony Hall - and the particular grace he exuded on the podium. bit.ly/49AS2om

I managed to get off my stationary Green Line train at Tufts and WFH instead of going in, but sending solidarity to my fellow T riders, cursed to pay the price for this state’s absurd neglect of its most basic infrastructure. Adam Gaffin