The main part of Virtual Boston Early Music Festival may be done, but it's archived through July 11, so you can still catch the things you missed. Meanwhile, the virtual Fringe part is in full swing. Check out the nightly schedule here.
While the theaters remain closed by order of the Master of the Revels, anyone with a jones for Shakespeare history plays should check out the Royal Shakespeare Company's Henry VI Open Rehearsal Project. It's an up-close experience as they tackle everything from the challenges of metrical speechifying to creating fight choreography to how to do a coronation in a plague year. They stream live and archive, all accessible for free (you have to sign up), until the final day (June 23) when they do a complete run-through of the Henry VI part 1 they've been building before our eyes for the last few weeks -- this part requires a paid ticket (£20 or about $25 right now). Henry VI is like a three season HBO series unto itself, covering the ground between Henry V and Richard III, so it's probably worth it to read a synopsis before going in if you haven't been this way before. But this project is all about the process of making theater and it's absolute gold.
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Sunday, June 6, 2021
virtual Boston Early Music Festival starts today!
Boston Early Music Festival goes virtual this year -- starting today -- for its biennial week-long extravaganza. While this is in some ways the same tragic situation we've been dealing with for everything, there are some silver linings, among which are:
1) You can tune in from anywhere on the planet!
2) Tickets are about 80% cheaper! (Seriously, you can do the whole thing for $150 bucks, and most of the individual concerts are $10.)
3) They're posting the Fringe festival the week after, so you get twice the festival with no scheduling conflicts or trying to get from somewhere in Back Bay to somewhere in Cambridge in five minutes! (Traditionally the Fringe is tip jar or nominal ticket price, so presumably there will be virtual tip jars and all you'll miss out on is the experience of dropping a fiver in someone's theorbo case.)
4) Performances are archived (for a limited time) so you can access them later.
5) As much as we love Jordan Hall and environs, you get to check out other venues beyond the Bostonsphere -- special mention to ACRONYM, who recorded their bit at Troy Music Hall of the perfect acoustics.
6) Amanda Forsythe
All that plus master classes and a virtual version of the famous trade show, so if you're in the market for a virginal or a crumhorn or a portative organ or a crwth, you can probably find a maker to Zoom in on.
1) You can tune in from anywhere on the planet!
2) Tickets are about 80% cheaper! (Seriously, you can do the whole thing for $150 bucks, and most of the individual concerts are $10.)
3) They're posting the Fringe festival the week after, so you get twice the festival with no scheduling conflicts or trying to get from somewhere in Back Bay to somewhere in Cambridge in five minutes! (Traditionally the Fringe is tip jar or nominal ticket price, so presumably there will be virtual tip jars and all you'll miss out on is the experience of dropping a fiver in someone's theorbo case.)
4) Performances are archived (for a limited time) so you can access them later.
5) As much as we love Jordan Hall and environs, you get to check out other venues beyond the Bostonsphere -- special mention to ACRONYM, who recorded their bit at Troy Music Hall of the perfect acoustics.
6) Amanda Forsythe
All that plus master classes and a virtual version of the famous trade show, so if you're in the market for a virginal or a crumhorn or a portative organ or a crwth, you can probably find a maker to Zoom in on.
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