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The violinists, posing with Mayor Thomas Bernard, performed the last of three popup concerts for health-care workers at BMC. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The sounds of Mozart.
HomeFront: All hail Dionne Warwick, Shakespeare on the Common returns, dysfunctional TV families
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:55 a.m.
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Dionne Warwick is planning two Mother s Day concerts online.
Welcome back to HomeFront, where weâre slowly shaking off a year-plus of âGroundhog Dayâ-style sameness and reacquainting ourselves with the concept that big news can be good. Vaccination numbers climbing, Free Shakespeare on the Common back on the calendar, and especially the return of Broadway â all big, all good! For the scoop on all kinds of diversions, keep reading.
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Dionne Warwick has embraced livestreaming â sheâs performing two Motherâs Day concerts. She wanders memory lane in an entertaining Q&A with the Globeâs Christopher Muther, touching on her back catalog as well as Twitter fame (âI say things that give food for thoughtâ). Of Ego Nwodimâs uncanny take on
For mother-daughter violinists, Boston Pops concert is a pandemic high note
By A.Z. Madonna Globe Staff,Updated May 6, 2021, 1:57 p.m.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Ala Jojatu (left) and her daughter Maria will perform Bachâs Concerto for Two Violins for an online Mother s Day concert.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Maria Jojatu canât remember the first time she appeared on the Symphony Hall stage. But her mother, Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Ala Jojatu, certainly does.
âI was doing auditions for the BSO . and I had a big belly with her inside,â said Ala in a FaceTime interview with Maria, now a high school junior, sitting by her side. âI could barely move my bow so it didnât hit my belly!â
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor
Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s
Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s
Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.