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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

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

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