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But the resident Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra has now risen to star status itself, with Robert Mealy as concertmaster. Mr. Mealy seems to foster excellence wherever he goes, whether he’s at Trinity Wall Street in New York, as concertmaster of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra; at Yale, as director of the Yale Baroque Ensemble; or ...

Full marks, then, to the Orchestra of the League of Composers/I.S.C.M., a five-year-old freelance ensemble fielded by a 90-year-old advocacy organization, for undertaking a program of six worthy pieces at the Miller Theater at Columbia University on Monday evening. The concert, “Reflections & Memories,” included two world premieres, three relatively recent works and an older ...

The opening concert of the festival’s fourth iteration, on Friday at the School of Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, was excellent. Benjamin Britten’s centennial — the focus of this year’s nine-day program, along with, oddly enough, Baroque and modern Italian music — was the occasion for an immersion in the 20th-century British repertory. In addition ...

ASCAP, the performing rights organization that collects royalties for nearly half a million composers, songwriters and publishers, will present its annual Adventurous Programming awards to 18 American orchestras and one new-music festival on Tuesday. The prizes, which ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) established in 1947, are meant to encourage the programming ...

Soon after The New Yorker published the pianist Jeremy Denk’s “Every Good Boy Does Fine” in its April 8 issue, Mr. Denk took to his blog Think Denk, and offered a bit of editorial second-guessing about his illuminating memoir of his studies. “In the essay, many sins of omission,” he wrote, noting that in the ...