Homage, reference, quotation, imitation, influence, borrowing, debt, plagiarism. These all lie along a spectrum of possibilities whereby one composer refers to the music of another. Saturday and Sunday’s concerts at
The former BSO executive orchestrated the appointment, which was negotiated in secret and came as a total surprise after a Boston newspaper revealed that Williams was the favored successor to
In 1910, Maurice Ravel wrote five pieces for two pianos based on the “Mother Goose” stories for the two children of friends. The youngsters must have been gifted, if, at