Boston Globe music critic Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo links music and memory, through investigations into Holocaust-era compositions of Strauss, Schoenberg, Britten and Shostakovich.
I won’t get serious about a detailed chamber music calendar until next month. Summertime really was that much fun. I did notice Mistral Music was performing this weekend in Andover and Brookline, and concerts honoring Roger Tapping (19th, at NEC) and John Zorn (24th, Gardner) coming up. I will update the calendar for chamber music monthly, and post reviews each week as well. That’s the season plan.
I’m reviewing next week’s BLO Madama Butterfly for the music critic’s site, Classical Voice North America. I’m reviewing as well Jeremy Eichler’s new book, Time’s Echo, also for CVNA. Time’s Echo is a compelling set of ideas, gracefully crafted—written not just for musicologists, historians, or memoirists, but in ways, for all of them. I’m still working on it, but the book draws you in and keeps you. A pleasure to read.
Insiders will have noted the end of Opera News, one of my few remaining outlets. Disappearing media can no longer be a surprise to anyone, but this was unexpected.
I began at Opera News in the ’90s, writing features for Brian Kellow, and later reviewing for F. Paul Driscoll. I’ll miss both associations—Kellow, who died in 2018, was a great editor; Driscoll transformed ON into a robust publication that covered all sorts of vocal performances, not just main-stage productions.
Opera News will somehow become part of London-based OPERA magazine, also a terrific glossy. I’m happy to be reviewing VALIS at MIT this weekend for OPERA, and perhaps that will develop into a regular Boston beat as well.