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Photos: Boston Symphony Orchestra & Claremont Trio

Good musical news

By STU ROSNER AND MICHAEL J. LUTCH | January 31, 2012

The Claremont Trio inaugurated the Gardner Museum’s new Calderwood Hall.

READ: "Some good musical news in troubled musical times" by Lloyd Schwartz

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Ludovic Morlot at the BSO; Philippe Jaroussky with Apollo's Fire
Former BSO assistant conductor Ludovic Morlot has returned for two programs planned by and for former music director James Levine.
Autumn garden
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.
Welsh rarebit
Boston Lyric Opera hasn't had much success lately with either its home-grown or its second-hand products, but its latest import — the Welsh National Opera's 2004 production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss's third collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, his favorite librettist — is a charmer.
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Ludovic Morlot at the BSO; Philippe Jaroussky with Apollo's Fire
Former BSO assistant conductor Ludovic Morlot has returned for two programs planned by and for former music director James Levine.
Autumn garden
It's freshman and sophomore year on the Boston rialto, with American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus introducing her first season and Huntington Theatre Company honcho Peter DuBois endeavoring to survive his second.
Welsh rarebit
Boston Lyric Opera hasn't had much success lately with either its home-grown or its second-hand products, but its latest import — the Welsh National Opera's 2004 production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss's third collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, his favorite librettist — is a charmer.
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Mastodon simplify the heavy subject matter
Viewed from the outside, heavy metal has always appeared unnecessarily negative, obsessed with morbid imagery and anti-social attitudes.
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Susan Davenny Wyner, and Courtney Lewis
The season-opening concerts I've been going to have made me think about two kinds of musicians: those whose performances become transparent, who allow the listener into the heart of the music; and those for whom their own abilities — technical marvels — seem an end, not a means to a higher end.
Cambridge moves to Boston in Before I Leave You
Fear of mortality is a domino in Before I Leave You, the play with which 72-year-old dramatist Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, who has been flexing her inky fingers in Cambridge for 40 years, enters the big time.
Boston Midsummer Opera's The Italian Girl in Algiers
This year Drew Minter and BMO gave us the young Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers , composed when he was 21 (it was his 11th opera!). It's an energetic comedy about a wily young woman who outwits the warlord who wants to add her to his harem.
The Big Hurt: This week in image problems
Poor Biebs. He just wants to be the wholesome kid next door, but with his 18th birthday creeping up, America's youth-stealing culture just can't wait to liquor him up and lay him.
Teddy Thompson becomes his own man
Sometimes a writer winces at the thought of having to ask the obvious but necessary question. So I'm grateful to Teddy Thompson for answering before I can even ask.
Creaturos spin in the center of a creative orbit
Boston is a city built on pride. Our music, our sports, our accents: whatever it is, good or bad, it is ours .
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