TRIIIBE In Search of Eden: A Work in Progress Up until Sunday, December 19. As the title suggests, In Search of Eden: A Work in Progress, is a show that delivers a new experience every time visitors see it. Repeat visits often offer new insights at exhibitions but in this case, they’re all but certain. […]
Posts by: bjuarez
Derek Jacobi is Ready To Play Lear
December 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm
An interesting and candid interview with the great actor in The Guardian: Derek Jacobi’s King Lear: ‘I’ve always felt slightly young for the role, but now I’m 72…’
Rave Review for Harold Reddicliffe’s Show
November 30, 2010 at 5:18 pm
From the November 28, 2010, Boston Globe review by Sebastian Smee: Cameras, Clocks, and Microscopes in Uncanny Detail “Harold Reddicliffe is a fascinating artist, and certainly one of the most accomplished I’ve come across in these parts…There’s…an emotional dynamic at work: a comic ebullience beneath the poker-face, an enlivening, adult tension between scientific fastidiousness and […]
Classic Satire from the Soviet Era
November 30, 2010 at 12:22 pm
It is difficult to spend time in Russia without thinking back to the Soviet Union. After all, it was not that long ago that the decision was made to dissolve it at the Belovezh Forest meeting in December 1991. One of the classic satirical novels of Soviet literature is Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. […]
BU Piano Student Leon Bernsdorf Wins 2nd Prize in Moscow’s Liszt Competition
November 28, 2010 at 4:27 am
The Central Music School in Moscow of the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory held their Second International Liszt Piano Competition this past week. The School, founded in 1935 is recognized as a leading institution for musically gifted children. Many outstanding artists like Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Natalia Gutman, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and many more studied there. Under the remarkable leadership […]
BU Symphonic Chorus and the BU Chamber Orchestra at Old South Church in Copley Square
November 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Though I was unable to attend this concert due to travel, I did attend the rehearsal. I am therefore confident that the audience at Old South Church had a wonderful evening. Congratulations to Professor Ann Howard Jones and all the artists who worked on this event. Hadyn’s Paukenmasse (Mass in a Time of War) has […]
Sparkle Amid Splendor at Symphony Hall Tribute
November 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm
On The Road By the time you read this, I will be in Russia with School of Music director, Robert Dodson and Piano department chair, Boaz Sharon. Among other activities, we will meet with officials from the Moscow Conservatory on possible collaborations between our schools. Even though I am 4,500 miles away, I am […]
Musician. Teacher. Mentor.
November 18, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Roman Totenberg I hope you will join me and the entire Boston University community at Symphony Hall on Sunday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. to honor our own Roman Totenberg in celebration of his 100th birthday and the countless contributions he has made to music. Each time a former student raises a bow in one […]
René Laennec: Flutist, Stethoscope Inventer
November 18, 2010 at 1:50 pm
French doctor René Laennec (1781-1826) had a sensitive ear; as a flutist he knew how to listen. In 1816, he came upon an idea that would help him to hear the internal sounds of the body. He rolled up sheets of paper into a cylinder and pressed one end to a patient’s abdomen and the […]
