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Video Game Music…Classical Style
The people gathered in a room at the George Sherman Union on a recent weeknight to hear the Videri String Quartet weren’t your typical classical music audience. The small, mostly male crowd, dressed in...
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CFA Brings Mahler’s Resurrection to Symphony Hall
In the great late-Romantic composer Gustav Mahler’s program notes for a 1901 performance of his Symphony No. 2, he sets the scene for the first movement, the allegro maestoso: “We are standing near the...
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A Fairy Tale for Grownups
There is nothing Disneyesque or candy-coated about the poignant opera Cendrillon, based on the classic Italian folk tale we know as Cinderella. In Jules Massenet’s interpretation, the story has been...
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Live from BU, It’s Pals & Friends
Editor’s Note: Episode 2 of Pals & Friends will air tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22 at 8 p.m. not Tuesday, April 21 at 8 p.m. as originally reported. The past few years have been something of a...
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CFA’s Graduate Thesis Exhibitions Are Like “Visual Poetry”
For the past two years, painting, sculpture, graphic design, and art education graduate students in the College of Fine Arts Master of Fine Arts program have been engaged in intensive studio work. The...
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Secrets and Lies on an Irish Outpost
Drawn to dramas of people living on the fringe, director Thomas Martin (CFA’15) chose as his master’s thesis play Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, whose title character is an outsider among...
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808 Gallery Hosts BFA Thesis Show
The 808 Gallery’s expansive plate glass windows are attracting lots of spectators at the moment, thanks to the gallery’s eye-catching series of abstract sculptures. Jagged, translucent pieces of...
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Sherman Gallery Show Presents a Grand Narrative
The past two years have been something of a blur for Aaron Norfolk. A College of Fine Arts painting fellow, Norfolk says he’s slept very little during his two-year fellowship, especially his first...
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After 24 Years, Ann Howard Jones to Leave Podium
There is a crop of young, passionate choral conductors currently working across the United States who have something in common beyond their love of the canon of Bach, Verdi, Brahms, and Britten: they...
View ArticleA CFA Center for All Things Beethoven
For scholars, conductors, performers—and those who just revel in the music—Ludwig van Beethoven’s tormented, often misunderstood life is endlessly compelling, his work the inspiration for a lifetime of...
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BUSTI Program Aims a Spotlight Offstage
Lindsey Walko remembers back in the sixth grade, when she saved the day while playing one of the orphans in a production of Annie. “During the preset, our stage manager forgot to put the laundry basket...
View ArticleInaugural BU Arts Fair Today
The performing and visual arts play a vital role in campus life at BU. For confirmation, one has only to look at the Student Activities website, which features more than 20 dance groups alone. Factor...
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Opera Singer Deborah Voigt Speaks at GSU Tonight
Deborah Voigt’s father used to say she could sing before she could talk. As a child, Voigt, who has conquered the world’s great stages as the dramatic soprano lead in operas by Strauss, Wagner, and...
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CFA Fringe Festival Returns with Seven Deadly Sins
The prolific and influential composer Kurt Weill and writer and lyricist Bertolt Brecht teamed up in their native Germany in the 1920s, producing their best-known work, the classic and often-staged...
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Stone Gallery Exhibition Recalls the Horrors of Hiroshima
Iri and Toshi Maruki were a young married couple living in Tokyo in August 1945, when American forces dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on the city of Hiroshima, killing more than 100,000...
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Using Art to Talk about Race and Identity
In the weeks following the deadly church shooting in Charleston, S.C., this past June, which claimed the lives of the church’s pastor and eight parishioners, all black, Ty Furman began to think about...
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Lowell Poetry Reading Features Pulitzer Winner Tonight
Growing up in rural Bogalusa, La., in the 1950s, Yusef Komunyakaa fell in love with books. His father, a carpenter, was illiterate, able only to sign his name. But he instilled in his son a respect for...
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Enigmatic Faces at Sherman Gallery
Step into the Sherman Gallery and chances are you’ll find yourself both entranced and discomfited by the female faces that gaze out at you. Yes, they are beautiful. But Ariel Freiberg’s paintings offer...
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Renaissance Women
Mackenzie Devlin was trying to be ugly. The five-foot-seven, blue-eyed blonde has been told she’s the ingenue type, and in a typical production of Henry IV, Part I, she would play a noble lady. But in...
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Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Junot Diaz Reads Tonight
When Junot Diaz’s first book, Drown, was published in 1996, critics hailed the 28-year-old as a literary wunderkind. The collection of interconnected short stories chronicled the hardscrabble lives of...
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