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E.U. Wurlitzer Music and Sound was a musical instrument retailer and part of the greater Boston music scene from 1890 through 1999. The store moved in the mid-1960s from its Bedford Street location to 360 Newbury Street (on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue ), and then settled at 180 Massachusetts Avenue .
The Juventas New Music Ensemble is an instrumental ensemble located in Boston, Massachusetts devoted to performing musical works by emerging composers. Their programming focuses on composers who actively blur the boundaries between popular musical genres and traditional art music . [ 1 ]
In his article Bosstown Sound 1968 - The Music and Time, Lorber wrote Boston was a logical epicenter for his marketing plan "since it was a place for new and progressive music forms from the folk days, and had an exceptionally strong initial sales potential in the 250,000 college students in residence in Boston's 250 colleges and universities ...
The Boston Camerata is an early music ensemble based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1954 by Narcissa Williamson, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as an adjunct to that museum's musical instrument collection. [1] The Camerata incorporated as an independent nonprofit in 1974. [2]
Collage New Music is a Boston-based ensemble.Since 2009, their main performing venue has been the Longy School of Music's Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall. [3] Since its inception in 1972, Collage New Music has maintained a reputation for performing works by the great composers of the 20th and 21st century, [4] such as Edgar Varese, John Cage, Yehudi Wyner, Olivier Messiaen, and Joan Tower.
Joel Cohen (born 1942) is an American musician known for his work in the field of early music, particularly medieval, Renaissance, and early American repertoires. [1] He served as the director of the Boston Camerata from 1968 to 2008 and later became its Music Director Emeritus.
Boston Musica Viva has recorded for the Albany, Neuma, Delos, CRI, Nonesuch, Newport Classic and Northeastern Records labels. Boston Musica Viva received an Aaron Copland Fund grant in 1993 [ 3 ] and in 2003, the ensemble received the ASCAP /Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming.
He settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1848, becoming leader of the Suffolk, Boston Brigade, and Salem bands in swift succession. He also worked in the Boston music store of John P. Ordway , performing as a member of " Ordway's Aeolians ", a blackface minstrel group, [ 3 ] with whom he played tambourine.