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L to R: Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan
Tonight's two Celebrity Series performances by Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile, at The House of Blues are being cinecast live and recorded for later broadcast on PBS. Yo-Yo Ma talks with MSN Entertainment about performing live and live for cinecast, plus the genesis of The Goat Rodeo Sessions. Yo-Yo Ma's 'Goat Rodeo': Ready for Their Close-Up.
Jeffrey Gantz' reviewed Hungarian Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos' Friday night concert at Sanders Theatre for today's Boston Globe. The concert, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Celebrity Series, was the Roby Lakatos Ensemble's Boston debut.
Read Jeffrey Gantz's review.
Not that you needed an excuse to come to Roby Lakatos' performance (Jan. 27, Sanders Theatre), but this is pretty darn hard to resist ...
Max Raabe on German Sesame Street. Is Sesamstrasse in Brooklyn?
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester (minus Bert & Ernie) visit the Celebrity Series and Symphony Hall Sunday, March 4.
Boston favorites the Golden Dragon Acrobats return to Symphony Hall this Sunday. Good seats are still available!
Balé Folclórico da Bahia lit up the Opera House on Saturday night. Karen Campbell reviewed the performance for today's Boston Globe: Brazilian troupe kicks up the heat.
Here is Chucho Valdés' band for his tour, which stops at the Berklee Performance Center on October 28:
The Afro-Cuban Messengers:
Lázaro Rivero Alarcón, bass
Juan Carlos Rojas Castro, drums
Yaroldy Abreu Robles, percussion
Dreiser Durruthy Bambolé, batá drum and vocals
Carlos Manuel Miyares Hernandez, tenor saxophone
Reinaldo Melián Álvarez, trumpet
Chucho Valdés is, of course, on piano.
We couldn't be more thrilled by the Celebrity Series of Boston debut of the great Chucho Valdés!
Folk singer Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of the renowned Irish group The Clancy Brothers, has died at 74 in County Cork.
Poignant last interview with Liam Clancy in Irish America
BBC News
Liam Clancy interviewed on Turbridy Tonight, Part 1 (2008)
Liam Clancy interviewed on Turbridy Tonight, Part 2 (2008)
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at Symphony Hall on Sunday (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Suzanne Vega (November 6, Sanders Theatre)
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, conducting (November 15, Symphony Hall)
The Boston Globe (Jeremy Eichler)The Hub Review (Thomas Garvey)
The Boston Phoenix (Lloyd Schwartz)
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Check out Matthew Guerierri's review of both concerts by The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma.
I'll just say that the response - from the rapt attention, to the post-performance hush, to the tumultuous applause - made more than a few of us proud of our town. This was great stuff and they completely got it. It wasn't that it was surprising that the audience was so on top of things, it's was just that they were with the musicians every step of the way; it felt quite communal to me.
