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Boston Globe
26-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Organ designer makes art on a major scale
C.B. Fisk Pipe organ designer Charles Nazarian points out a rose window in his scale model of an organ he designed for Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff.) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Advertisement Where to find him : Age : 73 Originally from : Watertown Lives in : Gloucester, in a nineteenth-century oxen barn he converted into a house. Making a living : In addition to his work at Fisk, Nazarian is an architectural designer of period homes and president of the A selection of organ pipes lie in a drawer in the storage room at C.B. Fisk, Inc. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff.) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Studio : Opus 166's scale model fills a corner of his small, shared office at Fisk. Drawings, dowels, and sketches on foamcore cover a nearby worktable. How he started : Nazarian studied organ as an undergraduate at Trinity College. Summers, he played Harvard's organ. 'There was a day when I was practicing, and Advertisement Nazarian had observed differences between Harvard's organ and Trinity's. 'I cornered him,' Nazarian said. 'I asked him point blank, why is it that your instrument doesn't do X, Y, or Z? He gave me a very tired look and said, 'Chuck, if you think you can do better, you should come work with us.'' After a detour to law school, Nazarian apprenticed at Fisk. Organ designer Charles Nazarian presses down on the keys of the pipe organ for the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida. Each keyboard relates to roughly 1,000 pipes. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff.) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff What he makes : He designs and builds scale models of organs in situ. Nazarian emphasizes the teamwork involved. It was Fisk's approach, too. 'If you could get at the time, eight or nine people, but now 20-plus people, to agree that the scale model looked good, most likely most people would think that it was a success,' he said. 'And this is the most persnickety group of artisans you can ever imagine.' Charles Nazarian examines designs atop the large roller board for the C.B. Fisk organ that will be installed in Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Florida. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff.) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff How he works : He starts with freehand sketches and moves to foamcore, which he can prop up inside his model of the church's interior. 'Once the direction seems to be working, I start turning the pipes and making the woodwork of the case,' Nazarian said. 'The core of what I do is trying to figure out what the instrument itself wants to be in the space,' he said. 'The goal is for the instrument to look as if it could have always been there.' Gloucester 05/21/2025 Cylindrical forms are used to form the shape of organ pipes in one of the work rooms at C.B. Fisk Inc. John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Advice for artists : 'Find the best mentors you possibly can, follow your passion in what it is you most want to do,' Nazarian said, 'and combine those two pieces together.' Advertisement
Boston Globe
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
English High snags third-straight Boston City League baseball championship on Jaurel Melo's game-saving catch
Latin's shortstop, Junior Carderon, laced the ball in Melo's direction — a full three feet above the third baseman's head — but jumping off one foot and reaching up, Melo made the acrobatic grab to help preserve a 6-4 English victory. 'He actually put on about 22 pounds of muscle this offseason,' English coach Christian Ortiz said of Melo. 'When he jumped and he caught that, the kids called me over and said 'That looks like the deadlift jump squats that we do.' That was pretty cool they put that correlation together.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The catch didn't fully secure the win for the Blue & Blue (16-5), but it generated momentum, which English carried into the last frame to finish off a BCL three-peat. Juan Ferrand notched an RBI single in the top of the seventh for an insurance run and Manny De Jesus finished the job, inducing a final groundout to second base. Advertisement 'The boys knew what the season was about,' Ortiz said. 'We've had some seniors who've been part of the first two, and they did a great job of molding and creating that culture for the new guys to come in here and accomplish it.' Advertisement English starter Luis Mejia was named MVP after pitching four innings and ripping an RBI double. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff English's starting pitcher, Luis Mejia, was on a roll for the first four innings, allowing one run while controlling the zone with his curveball, until an infield error allowed Nathan Bonilla to reach in the top of the fifth. The mistakes began to pile up. Following Nuri Gutman's single to put runners on the corners, a passed ball allowed Bonilla to score. A Theo Dehner sacrifice fly brought Gutman home, and Callum Burns worked a bases-loaded walk to make it 5-4. That's when Ortiz pulled Mejia and replaced him with De Jesus. '[The message was] just full support, throw strikes, and go get 'em,' De Jesus said. 'Finish the job.' The pitching change worked, as De Jesus hurled the final 2 ⅓ innings without allowing an earned run. Armanis Romero (left) is congratulated as he gets back to the dugout after racing around the bases for an inside-the-park home run. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Senior Armanis Romero's inside-the-park home run in the top of the fourth gave English a comfortable lead until Latin's comeback attempt fell short. With an RBI double in the top of the third — in addition to his performance on the mound, which included three strikeout — Mejia won MVP honors. 'We have to keep doing the same job, just stay consistent and keep moving forward,' De Jesus said. 'We still have [the] state [tournament].' Boston 05/24/2025 Latin Academy vs English in the Boston City League baseball Championship at BC. English celebrates their win, as they surround Luis Cruz (left). John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Boston 05/24/2025 Latin Academy vs English in the Boston City League baseball Championship at BC. English's Armanis Romero rounds 3rd base after his in the park homer. John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Boston 05/24/2025 Latin Academy vs English in the Boston City League baseball Championship at BC. Latin's Nathan Bonilla is upset at the end of the game in which his team lost. John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
Boston Globe
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
BSO's unseen musician: The recording engineer
Advertisement Nick Squire looks at live monitors of the Symphony Hall stage during a BSO rehearsal break. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff The engineer works with assistant recording engineer Cole Barbour, audio editor Bob Wolff, producer Shawn Murphy, and mastering engineer Tim Martyn. In March, the BSO and Deutsche Grammophon released their 19-CD box set of Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Where to find him : Age : 41 Originally from : Omaha Lives in : West Roxbury Nick Squire, lead recording engineer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has won four Grammy Awards. Some sit on a speaker in the studio. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Studio : Squire constantly updates the studio, built in 2015. Three of his four 'The idea is to provide a very transparent space, a neutral space for listening,' he said. Twelve speakers broadcast all frequencies more or less equally. The acoustics of the room are likewise neutral. Advertisement How he started : Growing up, Squire played drums in rock bands, but he also used a little karaoke machine with two cassette decks and two microphones for recording experiments. 'I was always a little bit more interested in the technical stuff than the playing,' he said. He went on to What he makes : Along with albums, Squire and his team record up to 350 concerts a year for the BSO, the Pops, and other groups. His team captures and massages every live performance. Nick Squire, lead recording engineer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, dons a pair of headphones in the BSO's recording studio. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff) John Tlumacki/Globe Staff 'We can put mics in different places on stage to bring elements more forward or bring the score more to life, while being careful to maintain all the balances and the color,' he said. How he works : The engineers set up 40 or 50 mics for an orchestral performance to capture its full sonic scope. Throughout the crafting of an album, they consult with Nelsons and his players on balance, and on sounds and passages to emphasize. Wolff takes the best of three performances of one concert and stitches them seamlessly together. Murphy mixes the recording, finessing artistic and technical components. Martyn applies finishing touches. 'My job is to always look after the best interests of the orchestra,' Squire said. 'All the individual musicians and Andris.' Advice for sound engineers : 'Say yes to everything. I thought I was going to do rock music. I had no interest in classical music,' he said. 'I just said yes to everything that I could. Here I am, and I love it.' Advertisement Nick Squire at the sound board in the BSO's recording studio in the basement of Symphony Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
Boston Globe
17-05-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
‘For a lot of us, we bury it deep down': In Lowell, horror remains raw 50 years after Cambodian genocide
The photo of Theam and her family is on display on the 5th floor of an old mill building overlooking a canal in Lowell. It's part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh, when the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian capital and seized power in the country, leading to a period of death and exodus. Now, decades later, the exhibit offers an opportunity to recall the horror of the genocide and recognize the resiliency of those who survived. The Khmer Rouge's radical policies led to the deaths of an synonymous with murderous despots. Advertisement The work of Cambodian sculptur Chanthou Oeur depicts the atrocities by the Khmer Rouge at the Proleung Khmer exhibit. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff (Some historians and many Cambodians Theam was a child when the family fled; her birth certificate says she was born in 1975, although she's unsure if that's right. Advertisement She remembers flashes of the refugee camps in Thailand her family stayed in — there were at least a half dozen — and the transitional center in the Philippines where her family was prepared for life in America, which included English lessons. Her family made the move in 1984, sponsored by a Lutheran Church, and settled in Bristol, Conn. She would attend Boston College and would eventually move to Lowell and Chelmsford, where she currently lives. Nearby in the exhibit, there is another photo, this one of Theam's husband, Sayon Soeun, who was kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge at 5 or 6 and forced to become a child soldier. These stories are commonplace in Lowell, home to what is believed to be the second largest Cambodian community in the country, behind only Long Beach, Calif. A small park is in the midst of Cambodia Town in Lowell with a statue depicting Bayon, a treasured temple in Cambodia. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Po Yung sells clothes and other items outside a market in Cambodia Town. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff A reliable population count is hard to come by, as locals dismiss the Census figures as inaccurate, but people like Sothea Chiemruom, executive director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, estimate Lowell has between 20,000 and 35,000 residents of Cambodian descent. Elsewhere on the exhibit floor, there are happier images of the Cambodian diaspora, Khmer instruments, mannequins draped in traditional Khmer dress, paintings and art by Cambodian American artists, a cart that would be pulled by oxen in the old country. It's important to memorialize the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh, said Chiemruom and Theam, but it's also vital to them that people understand Cambodians are so much more than what the Khmer Rouge did to them. Theam, who co-chairs Proleung Khmer, the organizers behind the exhibit and a group that works to preserve Khmer heritage, considered the photo of her and her sister, with their swollen bellies. Advertisement 'It reminds me how precious life is,' she said. Many here speak unwaveringly of horrors a half-century in the past and a half-a-world away. Summary executions. Hard child labor. Famine. Genocide. These are stories of perseverance and trauma. 'We all have different levels of PTSD,' Chiemruom said. Chiemruom survived the Killing Fields, which refer to the rural sites of mass execution. His younger brother and his father were not so lucky. Chiemruom, now 56, can still recall his father being taken away by the Khmer Rouge to be executed. Sothea Chiemruom walked through a small curbside produce market in Cambodia Town. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff He remembers being told that he should show no reaction to that abduction. He was there when his brother died of illness and malnutrition brought on by starvation at about 7 years old. Sometimes, he still wonders why he and his brother fought so much as kids. 'Survivor's guilt,' he said. 'It ebbs and flows.' Before he was a teen, he worked hard labor for the benefit of the Khmer Rouge, planting and harvesting crops, tilling the fields, building canals. Brutal work for a child. At night, there would be indoctrination lessons for youths featuring regime propaganda. Like Chiemruom, Sokhary Chau was forced into labor in Cambodia as a young boy. He herded cows before he was separated from his siblings and sent to work in the rice fields, which sometimes were studded with landmines, he said. Chau, who was the first Cambodian American mayor in Lowell, as well as nationwide, now serves as a Lowell city councilor. His father was a captain in the Cambodian Army who fought against the Khmer Rouge. He was among the first to be executed when the country fell in 1975, leaving his mother to raise seven children, he said. Advertisement 'We lived in constant fear of being tortured and killed any day,' he said recently. In 1979, his mother fled through the jungle, travelling at night with her children, to refugee camps in Thailand. The Roman Catholic Church eventually sponsored the family to come to the US. 'This anniversary is not only a time to remember the horrors we endured; it is a moment to honor how far we've come,' he said. 'Cambodians will continue to heal together, to support one another, and to make sure the world never forget what happened to our people.' The trauma of those years has spanned generations and is still a reality in the lives of many, both Chiemruom and Theam say. Take Theam's mother. Theam said she is normally quiet but there are times when she has 'bursts of anger.' 'Sometimes it's unexplainable,' she said. Some elders in the community don't talk about what they went through, Theam said, and when the rage erupts, younger relatives who did not live through the hellish Khmer Rouge are left asking why. There were other ripple effects. Cambodian gangs in Lowell started organizing not for criminal activity, but for protection walking to and from school. Advertisement 'They got picked on by other groups,' he said. Nuon, 61, lost three brothers through starvation and sickness during the rule of the Khmer Rouge. His mother, he remembered, was helpless to prevent their deaths. 'We couldn't help ourselves,' he said. His story is not so different from many Cambodian Americans, he said, and it's important to never forget the inhumanity of that regime. The exhibit in the old mill building brought him to tears. He had to find a corner to collect himself. 'For a lot of us, we bury it deep down, deep down, in order to survive, to function,' he said. 'It just hit me.' Cambodian refugee Sophy Theam puts her hand on the photo of her husband, Sayon Soeun at the Proleung Khmer exhibit. Soeun was forced to become an armed Cambodian soldier as a child at 5 years old. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Danny McDonald can be reached at
Boston Globe
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
April photo highlights: Boston 250, Sox Opening Day, Celtics playoffs
The Boston Evzones marched down Boylston Street during the 29th annual Greek Independence Day Parade of Boston on April 27. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski (left) and Carlton Fisk (right) saluted fans at Fenway Park as the 1975 team was honored on Opening Day. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Marc Tortell from Germany started the 129th Boston Marathon in high spirits in Hopkinton on April 21. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff The Dropkick Murphys energized demonstrators during "Hands Off," an anti-Trump/Musk rally at City Hall Plaza in Boston on April 5. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum celebrated a three-pointer during the fourth quarter in game five of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs against the Orlando Magic at TD Garden on April 23. Barry Chin/Globe Staff A Paul Revere reenactor waved to spectators in Boston's North End during the midnight ride commemoration on April 18. The event started Boston 250 festivities marking the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. Erin Clark/Globe Staff A volley of gunfire illuminated British troop reenactors as they fired at the minutemen on the Lexington Battle Green the morning of April 19. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff A worker in a bucket lift pruned the branches of towering willow trees in the Boston Public Garden on April 3. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Brothers Tyler, 10, and Taylor, 10, Gonick waited at the front of the line during Boston Red Sox Opening Day at Fenway Park. The brothers, from New Jersey, have been attending Opening Day since they were newborns. Erin Clark/Globe Staff Berklee College of Music student Anna Tandy leaned on fellow student Sophi Allen as they took a break from classes at noon on a bench on Boston Common. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Rohan Shukla suffered a catastrophic brain injury playing football for Sharon High School. His mother, Deepika Talukdar, was there when he got back from physical therapy to his room at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Benedicta Kumahia glanced up at the Rev. Wesley A. Roberts before he lowered her into the baptismal waters at Peoples Baptist Church. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Kimberly Zion, who was promoted to paramedic, hugged her husband Kassim Zion, promoted to captain, during the Boston EMT ceremony at the Boston Public Library on April 25. The event honored 35 newly graduated EMTs and 13 department promotions. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Fourth-grade Spanish language arts teacher Waldo Gomez laughed with his students during class at Kelly Elementary School in Chelsea on March 13. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Related : John Jenkins Jr., 6, cruised past dairy cows at the Hard Climb Farm in Troy, Vt., on April 20. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff A man prayed during afternoon Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston on April 23. Erin Clark/Globe Staff Rita Stivaletta soaked in the sun with her dog, Jojo, at City Hall Plaza in Boston on April 1. 'I'm enjoying the sun while it's still out,' she said. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Boston Red Sox shortstop Ceddanne Rafaela missed a fly ball during the eighth inning at Fenway Park on April 10. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff Scott Naso and his 3-year-old daughter, Laila, colored in the family's kitchen in Portsmouth, R.I. After the death of Laila's mother, questions arose for Scott Naso regarding his in-laws' care. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff Related : Ray Trombley, a Vietnam veteran from Northampton now dying of liver cancer, says Veterans Affairs services have been essential to paying for his health care. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff Lexington History Museums program manager Sarah McDonough closed the shutters in the guest room inside the Hancock-Clarke House, where Paul Revere warned John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were on the move. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
