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From BMOP, new music with a Hungarian accent
January 26, 2015 — Hungarian music, Liszt once wrote, “is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.” Saturday’s ambitious “Magyar Madness” program, presented by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, had representatives of both. It also had two alluring world premieres.
The Boston Globe Full review
Rock-solid But Not Maniacal
January 26, 2015 — Though the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s “Magyar Madness” certainly delivered on the first word by presenting four works of Hungarian or Hungarian-descended composers including two premieres at Jordan Hall on Friday, we’ll give BMOP a pass on “Madness,” as the alliterative sobriquet was oxymoronic considering the event’s rock-solidity.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review
BMOP’s “Magyar Madness” delivers rewarding range of music with two premieres
January 25, 2015 — The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, having promised a night of “Magyar Madness” Saturday at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, delivered world premieres of two outstanding, if well-behaved, works by Boston-based composers of Hungarian birth or ancestry and of Generation X vintage. The madness was supplied by the old-timers, Béla Bartók and Gyorgy Ligeti. Crazy or sane, violent or poetic, all the music in Saturday’s concert touched on Hungary’s distinctive culture as a place apart, isolated by geography and language, yet also bubbling with a mix of European and Asiatic influences.
Boston Classical Review Full review
Agócs draws on Hungarian poetry for BMOP premiere
January 23, 2015 — Composer Kati Agócs was born in 1975 in Windsor, Ontario, to a Hungarian father and American mother. Her music — spacious and elegant, even in its knottier episodes — reflects and refracts this polyglot background. But there is a special quality that her Eastern European background lends to her music.
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BMOP/NEC Concerto Competition
Boston, MA (December 12, 2014) — The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), affiliate orchestra for new music at New England Conservatory, will join NEC in sponsoring a concerto competition for works written after 1964. Provisions: The competition will be held in late January in Jordan Hall. The competition will consist of one round. Eligibility: The competition is open to any full-time NEC student, instrumental or vocal, who will be returning in the 2014/2015 academic year. Full Release
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) in Association With The Fine Family & The Irving Fine Society, and Brandeis University Celebrate Irving Fine’s Centennial and his Fellow Boston School Composers Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger
Boston, MA (April 16, 2014) — Download PDF When: Friday, May 16 @ 8:00 p.m. (free pre-concert talk @ 7:00 p.m.) Where: Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street), Boston, T: Symphony/Mass Ave. Tickets: General $20 - $50/Students $10. To reserve seats now, contact BMOP at bmop.org or 781.324.0396. Starting April 18, tickets are also available through the Jordan Hall Box Office at 617.585.1260, in person, or at tix.com. Full Release
BMOP announces BMOP/NEC concerto competition 2014
Boston, MA (November 22, 2013) — The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), affiliate orchestra for new music at New England Conservatory, will join NEC in sponsoring the 2014 Concerto Competition for works written after 1963. Provisions: The competition will be held on January 21, 2014, from 11am to 1pm in room 124 of the Jordan Hall building. The competition will consist of one round. Eligibility: The competition is open to any full-time NEC student, instrumental or vocal, who is enrolled for the 2013/2014 academic year. Full Release
NEC Celebrates British Composer Oliver Knussen with Honorary Doctorate, Performance, Lecture, Masterclasses in April 2013
Boston, MA (April 2, 2013) — For immediate release: March 29, 2013 • Degree Bestowed at Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concert, April 14 • Performances by [nec] shivaree, BMOP • Knussen Will Give Lecture, Work with NEC composition Students in Two Masterclasses Full Release

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