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Daniel Wang
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Interpreting Emotional Turmoil: Mitsuko Uchida and the BSO Tackle Beethoven and Shostakovich
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The challenge in performing these two pieces thus lies in the balance between conveying the compositions’ intended effect and capturing each piece’s musical details. Saturday’s performance was a valiant effort, but not without a few stumbles.
A Symphonic World on Show: Andris Nelsons and the BSO Perform Mahler’s Sixth
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Throughout the evening’s performance, the orchestra crafted wonderful phrases with natural beginnings but lost the tragic impulse of Mahler’s music as a result.
Piano Pyrotechnics: Yuja Wang and the BSO Perform Shostakovich, Haydn, Adolphe
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Yuja Wang’s excellence breathed new life into Shostakovich’s work, redeeming an otherwise bland performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
A Symphony of Flavors: Tasting Menus, Revisited
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The position of the culinary arts within the world of creative expression is much like that of a 12-year-old in a college seminar.