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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-31 18:48:06
Business Mentality in the Arts? Unkind Cuts?
From many sources we learn that Brandeis University proposes to place its PhD programs in composition and musicology on hiatus “until financial conditions improve,” according to Assistant Professor Emily Frey Giansiracusa’s account in Slipped Disc of Provost Carol Fierke’s pronouncement. Current candidates will be able to complete their work, and no faculty will be let go. Will the University’s bottom line take the slightest notice of this? Will the Lydian Quartet be shrunk to a trio? Is this what the President Liebowitz called “a lean into science”? Will science studies actually benefit? Our correspondents think not. Is this the beginning of an assault on the Arts? The directors of beloved institutions don’t always make the best decisions. Community hue and cry did not save Boston’s magnificent Opera House from Northeastern University’s wrecking ball, though powerful artistic opinion-makers managed to reverse Emerson College’s intention to morph Clarence Blackall’s stunning and historic Colonial […]
2023-02-23 08:00:00
2022-06-04 19:47:07
Carolo: Space Time Continuo Amanda Keesmaat, 5-stringed bass violin and musical ¬director; Andrea Stewart, Elinor Frey and Margaret Little, violas da gamba; Antoine Malette-Chénier, triple harp; ¬Christophe Gauthier and Dorothéa Ventura, organ and cello; François Viault, Karim Nasr and Mathieu Lussier, bassoons; Sylvain Bergeron, archlute Leaf Music, 2022 Amanda Keesmat, artistic director of the Space [...]
2022-06-03 04:08:07
Cellist Elinor Frey lives and breathes music. So much so that this bold and ¬industrious performer long ago stopped counting the hours she spent at fulfilling her childhood dreams. While classical musicians vie for secure postings in symphony ¬orchestras, Frey is constantly on the move—be it on stage, in the classroom or in some ¬academic [...]
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