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June 26, 2008 - John Harbison's Ulysses ballet is undoubtedly one of his most colourful, accessible works and a far cry from the cool convolutions of his Great Gatsby opera. more»
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June 23, 2008 - It is rare to encounter an opera premiere outside the big cities or big festivals but Amherst composer Eric Sawyer and Berkeley poet John Shoptaw have done the almost-impossible. more»
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June 23, 2008 - In opera, anything can happen as long as you sing about it. more»
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June 20, 2008 - Also called "Our American Cousin," the opera has its first staged performances tonight and Sunday in Northampton, with the Boston Modern Orchestra under Gil Rose. The orchestra recorded the piece for its BMOP Sound label shortly after the opera's first concert performance last spring. more»
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June 8, 2008 -
Michael Gandolfi's music has some of the rigor of the mid-20th-century atonalists, but it also draws on the richness of melody and timbre prized by the neo-Romantics. more»
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May 27, 2008 - Charting Armenian music and inspiration, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's season finale, "Armenia Resounding," balanced perspectives from within and without. more»
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May 11, 2008 - The news these days about the classical music recording industry is almost always bleak, so it's a pleasure to report a bright spot on that landscape: the Boston Modern Orchestra Project has finally launched its own record label called BMOP/sound. more»
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April 3, 2008 - ... And having presented chamber groups and soloists in its first decade, the five-day festival passed a milestone on Tuesday night, when it imported the energetic Boston Modern Orchestra Project and its conductor, Gil Rose, for its first orchestral offering. more»
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April 3, 2008 - ...While Allan's prose outlined the piece in positive terms, my composer's ears, buzzing in the post-concert crush, picked up some extra vibes. Bielawa walked into the hall as a professional, but she may well have walked out a star: the piece caused that kind of excitement. more»
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April 2, 2008 - Gil Rose and BMOP played a varied concert with conviction and panache Tuesday night. While there were wonderful soloists on the program, the ensemble really held the spotlight the entire night in the best possible sense - always blending well and making the most of lines, accompaniment and ensemble. more»
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March 31, 2008 - Four world premieres in one night is ambitious even by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's standards, but Saturday's novelty at Jordan Hall was also an old-fashioned Boston tryout for a New York opening: This week, conductor Gil Rose and the group bring the program to Brooklyn's MATA Festival, an annual new-music showcase previously run by BMOP's current composer-in-residence, Lisa Bielawa. more»
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March 31, 2008 - On Saturday night the New England Conservatory's teal and gilt Jordan Hall enjoyed the premiere of no fewer than four new works by living, breathing composers and performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which parties where symphony orchestras fear to tread. Bucking both contemporary and traditional expectations, provoking appreciation and conversation, this was a night of risks that paid off handsomely. more»
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March 27, 2008 - BMOP's lively performance does this ravishing work justice; factor in excellent sound, attractive packaging, and fine essays by the composer and Richard Dyer, and the result is self-recommending. more»
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March 23, 2008 - That's the title of Lisa Bielawa's impressive debut CD. Long known as a singer in Philip Glass's ensemble, she is now making her mark as a composer, one expansive collaboration at a time. more»
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March 21, 2008 - At a time when pundits continue to predict the death of physical recordings, the always-against-the-grain Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) has launched a new CD label, BMOP/sound. more»
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January 29, 2008 - Friday's wide-ranging Boston Modern Orchestra Project concert demonstrated how unhelpfully vague the umbrella term "modern music" can be. more»
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January 29, 2008 - BMOP has become so popular, you have to look hard in the program to find its full name: Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Founder Gil Rose and his outstanding ensemble celebrated their 10th season at the New England Conservatory on Friday with their annual concert devoted to Boston composers. more»
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November 19, 2007 - Composition Today's David Bruce interviews Executive Director Catherine Stephan about BMOP. more»
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November 14, 2007 - I wish that all the people who claim to hate "modern" music had been able to attend Saturday's concert of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at Bowdoin College's new Studzinsky Recital Hall. more»
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November 14, 2007 - The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), an orchestra devoted exclusively to performing and commissioning new music, has announced it will launch an in-house record label, BMOP Sound, in January. more»
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November 6, 2007 - Globe Correspondent David Weininger reviews BMOP's November 2nd concert, "Re-Inventions." more»
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October 28, 2007 - Rose founded [BMOP] some 10 years ago as a group bent on presenting contemporary classical music in all of its staggering variety, as a kind of fresh, quivering, vital experience, in dialogue with contemporary culture. more»
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August 24, 2007 - The Boston Modern Orchestra Project's 11th season will focus on concertos, pairing the orchestra with a wide array of local and international soloists. The season, announced today, offers BMOP's customary mix of the cutting-edge and the merely modern, including no fewer than 10 world premieres. more»
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May 24, 2007 -
The ASCAP Concert Music awards recognize outstanding accomplishments in the creation and performance for and advocacy of contemporary American music. more»
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May 21, 2007 - Anyone who caught the Ben Folds performance with the Boston Pops last week and was struck by the thinness of the meeting of musical worlds should have been there on Saturday night at Sanders Theatre to hear the Boston Modern Orchestra Project tee off on three bracingly imaginative works infused with rock 'n' roll and other popular styles. more»
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May 19, 2007 - Gil Rose and his Boston Modern Orchestra Project are nothing if not adventurous, playing all sorts of new music and bringing classical music to pubs and bars. more»
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May 18, 2007 - In the basement of the Masonic Hall in Porter Square, conductor Gil Rose is giving members of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project fair warning. "This is going to get pretty loud," he says. more»
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May 16, 2007 - Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) will perform Devolution, an original piece composed by Northeastern professor Anthony De Ritis and featuring DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) on May 19th at 8 p.m. at the Sanders Theater, as part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series. more»
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March 29, 2007 - President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the surrounding events are seen through the prism of musical drama in the world premiere of "Our American Cousin," a new opera by Amherst College composer Eric Sawyer and librettist John Shoptaw. more»
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March 24, 2007 - Pull enough threads in American contemporary music of the last 50 years and you'll arrive at the Fromm Foundation, which has funded commissions from many of the 20th century's most distinguished composers. Paul Fromm (1906-1987) was an emigre who fled Nazi Germany and settled in this country, establishing a successful wine importing business in Chicago and, later, a foundation pledged "to restore to the composer his rightful position at the center of musical life." more»
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March 23, 2007 - When Laura Keene took the stage of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. to greet the audience on April 14, 1865, she had every good reason to anticipate a fine evening ahead. more»
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March 13, 2007 - A few minutes into the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's performance of Pascal Dusapin 's chamber-ensemble piece "Coda," Gil Rose brought the music to a sudden halt. He calmly explained to the audience that he'd just encountered "every conductor's nightmare": He'd turned three pages in his score at once. And when that happens, he said with a small smile, there's nothing to do but start over. more»
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January 31, 2007 - Now in its 10th season, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project is a vibrant presence on the city's new music scene, a group with omnivorous musical appetites and impressive collective chops. Its calendar this season is crowded with contemporary music, from the avant-garde of France to the avant-garde of New Jersey. But once a year, BMOP tunes its questing ears to the music produced specifically by local composers, or at least those with local ties. The group's annual "Boston Connection" program took place Saturday night in Jordan Hall. For a new music concert, the event was well-attended by an audience refreshingly diverse in age. more»
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December 7, 2006 - the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (or BMOP) is in its third season of presenting concerts at Club Cafe. On Tuesday night, the space was packed with a lively audience. The atmosphere was bustling, with waitresses taking orders for beer and chardonnay as the players were setting up onstage...Programs like this one seem to breathe more comfortably in unconventional spaces, where the freshly minted music can stand free of the mammoth shadow cast by the standard repertoire. more»
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November 18, 2006 - BMOP (the Boston Modern Orchestra Project), now in its 10th season, is on the side of the angels when it comes to being good musical citizens. Can anyone doubt it? To begin with, when they use the word Project, that’s exactly what they mean. Everything on their recent (Nov. 3) Jordan Hall concert - some six works by four composers - was slated for commercial recording immediately afterward. With this done, the BMOP discography will amount to an impressive 20 releases...All throughout, the orchestral playing, under Gil Rose's unshowy but energizing direction, spoke volumes. It inspired trust. more»
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November 7, 2006 - Founded a decade ago, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project has risen to the front ranks of American contemporary-music ensembles through its fire, precision, and commitment to new work. BMOP's 10th season opened Friday at Jordan Hall with a concert including two pieces by emerging singer and composer Lisa Bielawa, 38, inaugurating her three-year residency with the orchestra. BMOP's typically canny programming surrounded Bielawa's works with beautifully complementary compositions - two, like hers, inspired by literary sources. more»
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June 29, 2006 - By calling his drama Angels in America "a Gay Fantasia on National Themes," Tony Kushner implies that his two-part, seven-
hour saga about America's response to Aids operates like a musical work; perhaps he even envisioned that it might one day be
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June 21, 2006 - Whatever anyone thinks of the actual opera, congratulations are again in order to Opera Unlimited, the collaboration between music director Gil Rose’s Opera Boston and his Boston Modern Orchestra Project, this time for bringing to Boston the American premiere of Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös’s attempt to make an opera out of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, his Pulitzer-winning play about the AIDS epidemic and the collapse of public and personal values under Reagan. more»
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June 19, 2006 - This is not easy music. Principals sang with confidence, and Gil Rose conducted with admirable command. Thomas Meglioranza was touching as Prior Walter, who is as close to a hero as Mr. Kushner has chosen to give us. Amanda Forsythe's Angel was powerfully sung. Drew Poling was a hearty Roy Cohn. more»
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June 17, 2006 - The orchestra, which included three backup singers that echo the characters' words - Kristen Watson, Krista River and Donald Wilkinson - was alert, assured, and responsive. And the applause that greeted the gifted and committed conductor Gil Rose when he appeared to begin the second act showed that the audience recognizes him for the local hero he is. more»
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June 16, 2006 - This new "Angels" touches down for the first time in America at the Boston Center for the Arts' Calderwood Pavilion, courtesy of Opera Unlimited, a collaboration between Opera Boston and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Make no mistake: This is a major event, one Boston should be excited to be hosting. more»
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May 29, 2006 - Conductor Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project closed this season's subscription series Friday night with a good-time program of crossover music. more»
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May 24, 2006 - Lucky for us, we have the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, who seem to specialize in the sonorous clearing up of pesky misunderstandings like this. In the past few years, they’ve disproved the alleged emotional starkness of minimalism, stitched the tear between Eastern and Western traditions with a stirring tribute to Toru Takemitsu, and this week, their Big Band program might fill in the imagined blank space between the seductive rep of jazz and the off-putting "difficulty" of good old-fashioned straight-up modernism. Let me stop there. more»
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April 28, 2006 - The 68th season of Bank of America Celebrity Series ... brings 74 performances in 11 venues by performers including major dance companies, orchestras, pianists, singers, chamber music ensembles, and world music, jazz, popular, and folk artists....The Boston Marquee Series, which presents leading local attractions to Celebrity Series audiences, will feature ... Boston Modern Orchestra Project under conductor Gil Rose in a program including works by Evan Ziporyn, Anthony DeRitis, and Steven Mackey, with DJ Spooky and Rinde Eckert as soloists. more»
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April 26, 2006 - Lloyd Schwartz of The Boston Phoenix reviews BMOP's April 4th "Club Concert". more»
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March 14, 2006 - Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe reviews BMOP's "Concerto's for Indigenous Instruments" more»
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February 17, 2006 - Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe previews Opera Unlimited's North American premiere of "Angels in America." more»
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January 30, 2006 - BMOP's performance at the University of Pittsburgh is reviewed by Andrew Druckenbrod for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. more»
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January 25, 2006 - The Boston Globe reviews BMOP's "Boston ConNECtion concert." more»
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November 18, 2005 - BMOP's tribute to Louis Andriessen is reviewed by David Weininger for The Boston Globe. more»
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November 7, 2005 - Sequenza 21 magazine reviews Bmop's recording of Stephen Paulus' The Five Sense. more»
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November 4, 2005 - The Boston Globe's Richard Dyer previews BMOP's premiere of Louis Andriessen's "The Trilogy of the Last Day". more»
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May 30, 2005 - Takemitsu Tribute is reviewed by the Boston Globe's Kevin Lowenthal. more»
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May 19, 2005 - David Weininger previews Takemitsu Tribute in the Boston Phoenix. more»
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May 2, 2005 - BMOP's recording of Bernard Rands' Canti Trilogy is reviewed by John Story for Fanfare Magazine. more»
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February 21, 2005 - Minimalism is reviewed by the Boston Globe's David Weininger. more»
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January 7, 2005 - BMOP's Club Concert series featured in the Boston Herald by T.J. Medrek. more»
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October 3, 2004 - BMOP's "Voices," the opening concert of the 2004-2005 season, reviewed by the Boston Herald. more»
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May 23, 2004 - "Next," a concert featuring the next generation of prominent American composers, closed BMOP's 2003-2004 season with rave reviews. more»
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March 30, 2004 - Classical Music Web reviews BMOP's recording of Reza Vali's Flute Concerto; Deylaman; Folk Songs (Set No. 10). more»
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March 8, 2004 - ClassicsToday.com reviews BMOP's recodring of Lee Hyla's Trans. more»
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January 1, 2004 - BMOP is featured in Symphony Magazine as an example of how an orchestra with a small budget can succeed in a large city. more»
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December 21, 2003 - BMOP's recording of Arthur Berger's Complete Orchestral Works is chosen as a critic's pick for 2003 in the New York Times. more»
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August 12, 2003 - The music on this disc is so good, you'd be tempted to proclaim it one of the best new-music discs of the decade were the pieces not 10 or more years old. more»
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August 12, 2003 - LA Weekly reviews Tod Machover's The Hyperstring Trilogy. more»
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August 9, 2003 - Victor Carr Jr. of ClassicsToday.com reviews BMOP's recording of Foss' Griffelkin. more»
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July 31, 2003 - BMOP's recording of Eric Chaslow's Left To His Own Devices is reviewed by Paris Transatlantic Magazine. more»
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January 30, 2003 - ClassicsToday.com extends high praises for BMOP's recording of George Rochberg's Black Sounds; Cantio Sacra; Phaedra. more»
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March 1, 2002 - Paul Jump profiles BMOP from a first-hand perspective in ArtsEditor. more»
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March 30, 2000 - "Canti Trilogy" was performed by BMOP in New York in 2000 and reviewed by critic Paul Griffiths. more»
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