| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-May-2013 New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall | A truly great Gatsby: John Harbison's opera gets a thrilling performance in Boston |
 Between Baz Luhrmann’s recent film The Great Gatsby, Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby currently at Sadler’s Wells, and Elevator Repair Service’s circulation-testing, eight-hour Gatz at the Noël Coward Theatre last year, Londoners such as myself could be forgiven for feeling all Gatsbied out (in truth, Gatz could probably have achieved that by itself).Read full review... | |
| 9-Dec-2012 Davies Symphony Hall | Chamber music with members of the San Francisco Symphony and Yefim Bronfman |
-Dario-Acosta-6x4.jpg) The San Francisco Symphony recently returned from an exhausting six-city, ten-concert tour of Asia and now enter the month of December with a selection of seasonal, festive performances. Before decking the halls of Davies Hall, however, they found time for another offering of classical excellence on Sunday afternoon with a superbly balanced program of chamber works by Harbison, Dohnányi and Brahms performed by members of the orchestra.
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| 1-Dec-2011 Boston Symphony Hall | Harbison's Symphony no. 5 in Boston: A meditation on loss |
| There is an electric guitar on stage at Boston's Symphony Hall, and it is not a Pops concert.
John Harbison's Symphony no. 5 for baritone, mezzo-soprano and orchestra up-ends what we think of as a symphony, presenting the voice as an instrument and recalibrating the form. Read full review... | |
