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11 January 2022
W I N T E R C L A S S I C A L M U S I C G U I D E

Whether in-person or livestreamed, catch

these classical music performances this winter

Lloyd Schwartz

How unsettling this past year has been. Musical venues finally reopened
for live performances (which is what music lovers were craving, weren’t

we?), but few events were sold out, and wonderful as it was to hear the
sound of live music again (there’s nothing like it), nagging doubts

remained, despite all the precautions, about being in public places, too
close to people we didn’t necessarily know. Eager as I was to go out last

year, I heard most of my “live” events at home on my computer.

Many of the performance venues themselves were unfamiliar, and

sometimes unsatisfying. The one Celebrity Series concert I attended at

the GBH Calderwood Studio had uncomfortable folding chairs and slightly
dead acoustics. Boston Lyric Opera at a Seaport District rock venue was
hard to get to and parking was expensive (is there a single handicapped

parking space in the entire district?). And it was harshly over-amplified —
the nemesis of live classical music or opera.