Aspen said goodbye to the much-loved Emerson Quartet last week at the Aspen Music Festival and heard joltingly big-boned music from another Aspen regular in Bobbie McDuffie. But a Mozart opera refashioned intriguingly for the 2,000-seat Benedict Music Tent stole the show.
Critic at large Ed Siegel says goodbye to the Emerson String Quartet, his old favorite, but has a young group to keep him company, the Danish String Quartet. Both are coming to NEC's Jordan Hall as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.