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Before the concert at Symphony Hall

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Published Aug. 26, 2010 at 2:22 a.m.

Failure ... You smell that? ...

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Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra

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Published May 6, 2010 at 2:58 p.m.
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 Northern Lights ... Jonathan McPhee and The Longwood Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall on May 1, 2010 ...   ... NEVER MIND THE SIBELIUS This was Nielsen that made you sit up and take notice. (Pictured: conductor Jonathan McPhee.) ... The last time I reviewed a Longwood Symphony Orchestra concert, we got Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemayá , the Coronation Scene from Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov , and Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass ... Before that, it was Samuel Barber’s Night Flight and

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Stopping time

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 4:34 p.m.
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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 ... LEFT AND RIGHT In Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, BSO music director James Levine (left) and soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard (at the piano) were just right ... BSO music director James Levine has returned to Symphony Hall for the first time since October, when

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Lighting history

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Published Feb. 3, 2010 at 10:32 a.m.
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The Gardner Museum takes a chance on the new ... On January 1, 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner invited 300 guests to a private concert by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the opening of her new museum on the Fenway. After performances of Bach, Mozart, and Schumann, the mirrored doors of the first-floor concert room rolled open to reveal an extraordinary vision ... INTO THE OLD THROUGH THE NEW From Evans Way, you’ll enter Piano’s addition — center, with its exhibition

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BSO shines with Julian Kuerti, Shi-Yeon Sung

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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 4:54 a.m.

There were beginnings and endings at the Boston Symphony Orchestra performance Saturday evening at Symphony Hall. Just not the kind you'd expect ... The beginnings ...

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Symphony Hall spruces up for enshrinement ceremony

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Published Aug. 31, 2009 at 8:45 a.m.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A $1 million improvement project at Springfield's historic Symphony Hall will be mostly completed in time for the Sept. 11 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony ...

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Yoma Burmese Restaurant

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Published June 24, 2009 at 3:56 p.m.
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After a long lapse, Boston gets another fine taste of a rare cuisine ... Burmese food bears some resemblances to that of its neighboring countries, which has been emphasized during Boston's surprisingly long, if gapped, history with the cuisine ... A REAL JEWEL: The tea-leaf salad at Yoma — with peanuts, crisp fried shallots, garlic, and tomato — looks great as served, and tastes even better mixed up ... Yoma Burmese Restaurant ... North Beacon Street, Allston 617.783.1372 yomaboston.com

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Home cooking

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Published April 23, 2009 at 11:09 a.m.
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The National Philharmonic of Russia at Symphony Hall ... If the name "National Philharmonic of Russia" puts you in mind of some provincial Slavic ensemble making the American rounds, you're not alone ... VLADIMIR SPIVAKOV In his element in the dance rhythms.  ... If the name "National Philharmonic of Russia" puts you in mind of some provincial Slavic ensemble making the American rounds, you're not alone. The orchestra isn't even six years old, so it's not comparable to, say, the august

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Diva-gations

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Published April 21, 2009 at 6:36 p.m.
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Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BSO; Renée Fleming returns to Symphony Hall ... Last week's Boston Symphony concert was a snaggle of contradictions. British guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth was substituting for the exciting but erratic Russian maestro Yuri Termirkanov, who'd cancelled all his American appearances ... A SNAGGLE OF CONTRADICTIONS Mark Wigglesworth's Mahler Fourth was fresher than his Beethoven but not more profound, and in the finale Juliane Banse was small-voiced ... Last week's

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Loved these but not those

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Published April 8, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
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Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Murray Perahia, Ian Bostridge ... Of the great international orchestras, perhaps the one that's most unfairly overlooked is the London Symphony Orchestra. Yet a handful of the very greatest orchestral performances I've ever heard have been with the LSO ... PROKOFIEV II: Gergiev and the LSO were breathtaking in the Fifth Symphony ... Of the great international orchestras, perhaps the one that's most unfairly overlooked for, say, the Vienna or the Berlin

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