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An audience on the lawn of the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood in 2018. (Courtesy Fred Collins) Classical-music devotees who’ve been missing the sound of live music and the camaraderie of intermissions can begin to breathe a sigh of relief as the pandemic, at least around these parts, begins to wind down. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has just announced that Symphony Hall will reopen Sept. 30 with celebrity violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the new John Williams Violin Concerto No. 2 (if you can’t wait, you can attend the world premiere at Tanglewood, July 24). This summer, many ...

Published July 20. 2021 10:02PM  By PETER DOBRIN, The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — When Denyce Graves visited Marian Anderson in the Connecticut home where the famed singer lived later in life, the two vocalists talked about how Anderson had never sought to “become the face of the civil rights movement.” But Anderson was called to that moment in Washington, Graves said, referring to the now-historic 1939 open-air concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial, when Anderson’s voice became a unifying force for racial justice. “She would open her mouth and sing,” said opera star ...

Glimmerglass Festival re-imagined: Opera outdoors on an impressive new stage | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHER: The finished outdoor stage at Glimmerglass Festival on Otsego Lake, 8 miles north of Cooperstown. (Karli Cadel/Glimmerglass) Shares0 Transformative is the byword at this summer’s Glimmerglass Festival, which opens today. Not only did the company build a new outdoor stage but a full season now known as “Glimmerglass on the Grass” will be offered with all productions having no intermission and lasting only up to 90 minutes with performances scheduled at either 11 a.m. o...

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