Fulfilling a dream — and a want ad — violists serenade customers at Quincy Gas - The Boston Globe Owner Harvey Kertzman longed for the soulful music of a viola and had mounted a search for a player to serenade his customers. On a recent day, he got four.

Finally got a chance to read this 🎻 ⛽️

Fulfilling a dream — and a want ad — violists serenade customers at Quincy Gas

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Program page Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, Ray and Maria Stata Music Director and Head of Conducting at Tanglewood 145th Season, 2025-2026 Tuesday April 14, 6.30pm Bill Barclay, writer and presenter Earl Lee conducting EXPLORER CONCERT: ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Overture from the Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont, Opus 84 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 Allegro con brio Andante con moto Allegro- Allegro Hillary Leben, Projections Designer This concert will end at about 7:35. Please note that there is no intermission.

Conductor Earl Lee holding hands with Bill Barclay, behind them is musicians of the Boston Symphony. All dressed in black with most of them wearing a red flower on their lapels

April 2026 show no.5

Took the kid to @bostonsymphony.bsky.social's Explorer series on Beethoven's Egmont overture & symphony No.5. The concert is designed for music newbies in a judgement-free environment. Intro by Bill Barclay, conducted by Earl Lee. Audience was encouraged to use Concert Cue

Oh I didn't realize... what a shame. I love Jaroussky but was going to miss it due to travel plans.

Sorry to hear; which group was it?

2 blooming hyacinths in the ground. One deep purple and one hot pink

A purplish red hellebore bloom against a white fence

Hellebore blooms that are apple green color

A few deep purple dwarf irises blooming over a bare ground

Mid-April #homegrown flowers update!

Hyacinths, hellebores, dwarf iris

Thanks for posting this! Love the article and it truly takes a village!

A black car snuggled in a grey fleece blanket all inside a Shin ramen box in front of a fireplace

MARCEL DUCHAMP printed on a wall

A mechanical device with illusion glass plates mounted on it

A print of Mona Lisa with a mustache drawn on her face

An exhibition room with a urinal on a pedestal display, a snow shovel hanging from the ceiling, and a bicycle wheel attached to a stool

Last but not least, my last day in NYC coincided with the opening of Marcel Duchamp's retrospective at MoMA

First page of program CARNEGIE HALL Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 2 PM Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Seong-Jin Cho, Piano JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825 (ca. 1725-1731) Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Menuett I Menuett Il Gigue ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) Suite for Piano, Op. 25 (1921-1923) Präludium Gavotte Musette Intermezzo Menuctt Gigue ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 (1839-1840) Allegro (Sehr lebhaft) Romanze (Ziemlich langsam) Scherzino Intermezzo (Mit größter Energie) Finale (Höchst lebhaft) INTERMISSION

Second page of program Chopin (1810-1849) Waltz in E Minor, Op. posth. (1830) Waltz in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3 (1838) Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute" (1846-1847) Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1 (1835) Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (1846-1847) Waltz in G-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1 (1833) Waltz in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2 (1829) Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2 (1838) Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3 (1846-1847) Waltz in F Minor, Op. 70, No. 2 (1841) Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 3 (1829) Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42 (1840) Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1 (1835) Grand valse brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18

Poster of Seong Jin Cho outside Carnegie hall with the red "sold out" banner across

Seong Jin Cho taking a bow with one hand leaning on the grand piano on stage

April 2026 show no. 4

Seong-Jin Cho's sold-out recital at Carnegie Hall, playing Bach, Schoenberg, Schumann, and Chopin. Absolutely exquisite!

Poster of innocence outside the Met entrance

Program book

Set of innocence of a 2-story building. Cast taking curtain bows

April 2026 show no. 3

Innocence by Kaija Saariaho at Met Opera, led by Susanna Mälkki

Love the production which is like watching a horror movie peeling back a layer each time the set goes a full rotation. There's so much to grasp in the music that I'm sad I can't see it again.

Indoor courtyard with a fountain in the middle and a curved skylight ceiling. The courtyard is flanked with columns.

A dish of gnocchi in a tomato sauce topped with basil and Parmesan cheese, inside a restaurant

Flowering magnolia tree against a bluesky

A field of yellow daffodils and red and pink tulips. Highrises can be seen in the background behind the trees.

Back at the Frick for the first time in over a decade; then enjoyed the beautiful spring weather in Central Park. My heart is full.

Thank you @doodlyroses.com for posting this or I would have missed it. Absolutely delightful exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum.

Program page New York Philharmonic Kwame Ryan, Conductor (New York Philharmonic subscription debut) Yarn/Wire, Ensemble (New York Philharmonic debut) Golda Schultz, Soprano IVES (1874-1954) George LEWIS (b. 1952) 4010-122 17318the32 st Coron FLOYD, (1926-2021) BARBER (1910-81) STRAVINSKY (1882-1971) BARBER These g The Unanswered Question (1906-ca. 1541) ..ohne festen Wohnsitz (2026; Worke Premiere-New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Philharmonie YARN/WIRE Russell Greenberg, Dustin Donahue, Percussion Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer, Pianos Intermission The Trees on the Mountain, from Susannah (1953-54) GOLDA SCHULTZ Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 (1947; tev. 1950) GOLDA SCHULTZ No Word from Tom, from The Rake's Progress (1948-51) GOLDA SCHULTZ Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17 (1939-42) Sible with supportrom the Helen Huntington Hull Fund

Stage of David geffen hall filled with musicians and many percussion instruments at the front of stage including 2 grand pianos, a celeste and a harpsichord. George Lewis standing on the conductor podium with Kwamé Ryan to his right The 4 musicians of Yarn/Wire are standing admist their instruments.

Golda Schultz in a dark gold dress

April 2026 show no. 2

@nyphilharmonic.bsky.social world premiere of George Lewis's ...ohne festen Wohnsitz w/ Yarn/Wire; Golda Schultz sings Barber and Stravinsky (she skipped the Floyd due to illness/allergies); Ives. Led by Kwamé Ryan

I had the pleasure of meeting @tmalesys.bsky.social !

a man is walking down the street with a guitar and a microphone on his back . ALT: a man is walking down the street with a guitar and a microphone on his back .

Today is one of those rare days in school and after school schedules that my kid ends up playing 4 different instruments at school:

In-school music class: piano keyboard
In-school band class: tenor saxophone
After-school break: viola
After-school wind ensemble: clarinet

Now you're making me super sad to miss this as I'll be away for their Boston performance

Concerts — Takács Quartet MOZART: String Quintet in C Major, K515: with Jordan Bak, viola 2

The group performs next in Boston (April 11) and a couple other places before ending back in Boulder at the end of the month www.takacsquartet.com/concerts

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‼️‼️ I hope she gets better soon!

Wear a red flower on Friday if you can

American Icons: Adams' "Nixon in China," and Dvořák's "New World" Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming sing three scenes from John Adams’ "Nixon in China," and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Antonín Dvořák's "New World" Symphony in a concert celebrating the...

Saturday at 8pm, the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social celebrates the American sound!

Hear @thomashampson.bsky.social and Renée Fleming in scenes from John Adams’ "Nixon in China," followed by the BSO performing Dvořák's "New World" Symphony.

Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4sdlTvL

I've never heard the piece but will get my first chance next month. It's also on the Mass Moca bang on a can LOUD weekend listing (which I posted earlier today)

Me too!

I feel like this piece is being played a lot this year b/c of his centenary

Screenshot of IG reel from bsomusicians showing a b&w photo of Andris Nelson's with his hands raised and smiling at the camera. He has a red flower on his lapel, the only object that isn't b&w in the photos. Captions above photo reads Thank you, BSO audience and fans.

Screenshot of IG reel from bsomusicians showing a b&w photo of 2 orchestra musicians. One is holding a double bass. Both musicians have a red flower on their lapel, the only objects that isn't b&w in the photos. Captions below photo reads We invite you to join us in a gesture that has come to mean so much.

Screenshot of IG reel from bsomusicians showing a b&w photo of French horn player Rachel Childers. She is holding a French horn. She has a red flower on her lapel, the only object that isn't b&w in the photos. Captions below photo reads Many of us continue to wear a red flower, or anything red, as a quiet symbol of solidarity

Screenshot of IG reel from bsomusicians showing a b&w photo of 2 orchestra musicians smiling at the. Camera. Both musicians have a red flower on their lapel, the only objects that isn't b&w in the photos. Captions below photo reads If you feel moved, we'd love to see you wear red with us in the hall.

Apologies to you both for assuming you have instagram. Here are 4 screenshots of a reel posted by BSO musicians

Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2026 | MASS MoCA Over 70 pioneering musicians from around the world come together to give shape to new sounds during this three-day, super-mix of experimental music. LOUD Weekend Tickets On Sale Now General Admission ...

WOW! This year's @massmoca.bsky.social's Bang on a Can LOUD weekend lineup looks 🔥

Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Conrad Tao playing Rzewski, Morton Feldman's Piano and string quartet, etc etc

I might have to go to some of them
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Wear a red flower if possible to show your support!

Loving your photos! I'm thinking of visiting Palm Springs + Joshua tree NP next Feb during school vacation week. I didn't know Palm Springs is full of mid century modern until I started researching, and Feb is when they host modernism week!

Andris Nelsons: “I don't want to go anywhere” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer Andris Nelsons, the management-embattled conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, told the BMInt publisher today that, “Of course I would be happy to stay [at the BSO].  I don't want to go anywhere...

Andris Nelsons: “I don’t want to go anywhere”

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Who knows, since no one from the admin has come forward to clarify how their visions are not aligned.

This is the new vision I suppose