BOSTON — 2010 will be a big party year at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshires. Musicians, composers, conductors and alumni will toast the 40th anniversary of the Tanglewood Chorus, the organization’s all-volunteer, 300-member choir. And prolific Hollywood composer John Williams celebrates his 30th anniversary.
BOSTON — Elected officials gathered with artists Thursday on Beacon Hill to talk about their role in the state’s creative economy.
While competitive lock picking is accepted in countries such as Germany, it’s still underground in the U.S. and one Somerville man wants to change that.
Officials in Plymouth will meet with executives from Plymouth Rock Studios on Tuesday night after major financing fell through on the long-planned development project.
For most of us, the experience of going to war is impossible to grasp. A new audio-video installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art attempts to channel the chaos and confusion American soldiers feel on the ground in Iraq.
The City of Cambridge lost an icon this week: master storyteller Brother Blue. For more than a decade, Brother Blue and his wife Ruth produced hundreds of hours of storytelling on Cambridge Community Television.
House concerts are a longstanding tradition in Boston. They happen in basements, living rooms and lofts, often sporadically, with varying levels of success. But The Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain has been packing them in every week for nearly three years.
BOSTON — Paranormal disturbances have been reported on the fourth floor of Shelton Hall, a Boston University dormitory. On the eve of Halloween, a ghost story.
BOSTON — As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum works toward completing its new building and expansion project, it’s also “going green” by digging wells far beneath the ground.
BOSTON — The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time.
BOSTON — Boston’s Chinatown hasn’t had its own public library branch since the 1950s. Now a group of artists is changing that by transforming a vacant, street-level commercial space into a temporary “Storefront Library.” For the next three months the Chinatown community can go there to borrow books, study, do research and re-connect.
BOSTON — As Boston’s mayoral election heats up, a fresh crop of campaign signs can be seen on fences, lawns and street corners throughout the city. Some are modest in size. Others are enormous.
BOSTON — Boston pianist Bruce Brubaker manipulates pianos in a rare way. Small weights on the keys produce an ethereal reverb that you can’t get from food pedals. The effect is subtle, for a lifelong pianist such as Brubaker, it’s delicious.
BOSTON — James Levine, music director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will not be conducting Tuesday night, or this weekend as planned, because he needs immediate back surgery.
BOSTON — Boston’s Guerilla Opera Company is performing an edgy new work that takes “political theater” to new highs — and lows. Remember the debates between vice-presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin and Joe Biden? Well, an opera writer has turned their words into a tragi-comedy called “Say It Ain’t So, Joe!”
BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra opens its season Wednesday night by saying farewell to a much-loved legend: retiring principal harpist Ann Hobson Pilot.
BOSTON — A survey of work by the influential Mexican artist Damian Ortega opens Friday at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
BOSTON — The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge has a new artistic director, and she’s getting funky. For her first production at the A.R.T., Diane Paulus is stretching the boundaries of theater with “The Donkey Show.”
BOSTON — Banjo pickers go head-to-head this weekend at the Lowell Banjo and Fiddle Contest. The competition is always fierce. A teenage girl plans to give the most seasoned pickers a run for their money. Michelle Canning won the New England Banjo Championship in July, making her the first female, and the youngest musician, ever to earn that title.
WELLESLEY, Mass. — Thirty-year-old Matthew Ebel has a regular gig every Tuesday night. There are more than 300 people in the audience, but Ebel can’t see them. He’s not in a club but in his basement, performing live, on the Internet. And he’s making a living.
