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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cape Cod restaurant news: Bar opens at Provincetown's Pilgrim Monument, bakery changes
In this week's restaurant news on Cape Cod, the Eat Cake 4 Breakfast bakery in Brewster has new owners; The Shallop Bar opened at Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum; and we found a fundraiser in which you can eat some of the prizes. In news you've been waiting for, Nantucket's famous Bartlett Farm opened a second farm in West Barnstable on Memorial Day weekend. Last week, Days on the Pier opened on MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown; folks are celebrating the 16th annual Wellfleet Restaurant Week through June 3; and we took a look at restaurants that have opened in the past our Dinner and a Show feature, we spoke to Cape Rep Theatre director Julie Allen Hamilton about 'Every Brilliant Thing' and recommended two restaurants near the Brewster theater. Here's the most recent news: Eat Cake 4 Breakfast has been purchased by the Nelson siblings. You may know the Nelsons ― Tori, 31, Tara, 30, and Todd F. Nelson Jr., or TJ, 25 ― from the summer of 2023 when they ran the Cousins Maine Lobster truck parked on Route 6A in Yarmouth Port or sometimes at Mashpee Commons. The bakery's founder, Le Cordon Bleu alum Danielle Nettleton, brought her French training to Eat Cake 4 Breakfast when she opened in 2015 and earned a reputation for rich, layered croissants (chocolate and pistachio is a favorite), scones, cookies and Brewster Buns ― a cinnamon roll made with croissant dough. For the past few weeks, Nettleton has been giving the Nelsons a crash course in baking. Although the new owners are, through their website looking to hire a full-time pastry chef, they also want to know how everything is made. The siblings said they are aiming to re-open in early to mid-June, with all of Nettleton's specialties. 'We know how many people love this place and we want to keep it just the same for them,' TJ Nelson said. But the new owners are also eventually looking to add some lunch sandwiches, fancy coffee drinks and gelato ― as well as extended hours. When they get to the point of adding some of their own baked goods, the siblings said, the first will be a chocolate snack cake with cream filling that they grew up making with their great aunt, Louise Romano, who died a few weeks ago. Nettleton said Eat Cake 4 Breakfast sold for $1.35M with the property. She said she is moving to Litchfield County, Connecticut, to raise her daughter with the help of family. Eat Cake 4 Breakfast, 26 Wampum Drive, Brewster, 508-896-4444, The new Shallop Bar is open to serve craft cocktails or mocktails to anyone who has paid admission to Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum or is a member of the nonprofit. Individual membership is $60 or $75 for two. 'Whether you're here for the view, the history or the vibe, this is your perfect pit stop,' organizers wrote. The Shallop Bar will be 'captained' by the monument's new food and beverage director Greg Whittle, according to the post. Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, 1 High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown, 508-487-1310, Duffy Health Center's Colors of Hope Online Auction, live through 8 p.m. June 6, has gift cards to some favorite local spots, including Alberto's, Scargo Café, Stars Restaurant at Chatham Bars Inn, Mike's Roast Beef, The Knack (Hyannis & Orleans), Stage Stop Candy, Snowy Owl Coffee, Veteran's Lunch Box Food Truck, and even a membership to the Captain's Table at Hyannis Yacht Club. Bid at All proceeds support Duffy Health Center's work with individuals experiencing homelessness on Cape Cod. Seventh-generation farmers John and Sarah Bartlett have opened a mainland location of the Nantucket farm that's been in their family for more than 200 years. The new farm is located at 2199 Main St. in West Barnstable on the land that was formerly Harvest Moon Farm. The farm will be open daily, selling seasonal produce, flowers and locally made goods, according to its website, "Rain, wind, and a full-blown nor'easter couldn't stop us from kicking off our first season in West Barnstable. We'll be here every day from 10 a.m.– 6 p.m., ready with farm-fresh goods, local favorites, and everything you need to brighten up this soggy start to the weekend," Bartlett Farm staffers wrote on the farm's Instagram. Gwenn Friss is the editor of CapeWeek and covers entertainment, restaurants and the arts. Contact her at gfriss@ Join the Cape Cod Times free Facebook group, Good Stuff at Cape Cod Restaurants, to share tips and participate in food polls. Thanks to our subscribers, who help make this coverage possible. If you are not a subscriber, please consider supporting quality local journalism with a Cape Cod Times subscription. Here are our subscription plans. This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod restaurants: Brewster bakery to reopen; Pilgrim Monument bar
Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Yo-Yo Ma: Shostakovich review — the superstar cellist holds back too much
It will soon be 11 years since Andris Nelsons became the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director. His current contract includes an 'evergreen clause' allowing for automatic renewal. Throughout, he's conducted and recorded much Shostakovich, in performances varying between the probably evergreen and the disappointingly deciduous. This new release, recorded live in 2023, teams Nelsons with the superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma in the cello concertos, worried creations from the late 1950s and 60s. Evergreen interpretations? Deciduous? Frustratingly, they're aspects, notable from No 1's opening thrusts, include the powerful and subtly inflected tone of Ma's cello. Nelsons's orchestra is just as impressive, whether it's the shrieking winds in No 1 or the horn fanfares and ghostly whisperings of No 2. Interplay between soloist and orchestra
Boston Globe
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
American music, Symphony Hall's 125th anniversary, and the natural world: Inside the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2025-26 season
Moreover, he said, the upcoming season 'represents the beginning of a deep exploration of the humanities' in the orchestra's work, with more supplementary events hosted by the BSO's humanities institute to be announced at a later date. 'We're beginning to weave big ideas and big questions into our work, as a way for our art form to have a dialogue between the past and present,' Smith said. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The 'E Pluribus Unum' programming is dispersed throughout the season, beginning with an all-American gala with music director Andris Nelsons on the podium during the season's opening weekend (Sept. 19), and concluding with John Adams's 'Harmonium' in the final program of the season, paired with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, a frequent guest whom Smith described as a 'great friend of the orchestra.' (April 30 - May 3) Advertisement However, many of the 'E Pluribus Unum' highlights are concentrated in January 2026, including concert performances of Samuel Barber's 'Vanessa' presented in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera, conducted by Nelsons with soprano Jennifer Holloway in the title role and Marshfield-grown mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as Erika (Jan. 8 & 10); an all-John Williams program, also conducted by Nelsons and featuring pianist Emanuel Ax (Jan. 22 - 25), and the Boston premiere of BSO composer chair Carlos Simon's gospel-inspired 'Good News Mass,' conducted by BSO artistic partner and youth and family concerts conductor Thomas Wilkins (Jan. 29-31). Nelsons is helming 14 different programs during the season, his twelfth as music director. His dance card includes 'Missa solemnis' (Oct. 9-11), Bernstein's 'Chichester Psalms' (Jan. 15 & 17), John Adams's Violin Concerto, featuring Augustin Hadelich (Oct. 16-18), and a shared date with 2025 Tanglewood Music Center conducting fellows Leonard Weiss and Yiran Zhao (April 3). The season's lineup of guest conductors includes Jonathon Heyward and Nodoka Okisawa, making BSO debuts; Andrey Boreyko and BSO assistant conductor Anna Handler, making planned Symphony Hall debuts; and several familiar faces including Herbert Blomstedt, Domingo Hindoyan, Thomas Adès, Susanna Mälkki, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Scheduled soloists with the BSO in the coming season include Yuja Wang, Seong-Jin Cho, Midori, Yunchan Lim, and Joshua Bell, among others. Hadelich, who made his BSO debut in 2012, performs several times in the coming season as artist in residence, offering a solo recital (Oct. 19) and chamber performances with pianist Orion Weiss (Feb. 1) and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players (Feb. 15) in addition to appearing in two programs with the orchestra. Advertisement In addition to its subscription programming, the BSO is also hosting three touring orchestras for single dates at Symphony Hall. The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra makes its Boston debut on Nov. 14; Nelsons brings the Vienna Philharmonic and soloist Lang Lang through on March 3, in a co-presentation with Celebrity Series of Boston; finally, the orchestra of Interlochen Arts Academy visits on March 15 with Cristian Măcelaru conducting a program including a new work for cello and orchestra by Wynton Marsalis, featuring Yo-Yo Ma. The Boston Pops also have several dates – most of them conducted by Keith Lockhart – dispersed throughout the season, presenting programs that will celebrate the work of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Sept. 20), Day of the Dead (Nov. 1), Lunar New Year (Feb. 21), and Irish musical traditions (March 14). 'We're finding opportunities to weave Boston Pops programming into the season broadly,' Smith said, 'anchored by Holiday Pops and Spring Pops.' The season's opening festivities commence on Sept. 17 with a free Concert for the City, featuring the BSO, Pops, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus with Nelsons, Lockhart, and Wilkins sharing the podium. As has become custom, a plethora of Boston-based groups will be offering pre-concert performances around Symphony Hall. Subscriptions are available now, with single tickets on sale July 31. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Begins September. 617-266-1200, A.Z. Madonna can be reached at
The Guardian
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk album review
Performing Shostakovich has been one of Andris Nelsons' calling cards during his first decade as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. What began as a project to survey all of the symphonies, with recordings of them subsequently released by Deutsche Grammophon, was extended to include all the concertos, and ended in spectacular fashion in January last year with concert performances of Shostakovich's most ambitious and controversial stage work, the 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Surprisingly for a work of such notoriety and historical significance, this is just the fourth recording of Lady Macbeth (there's also one available version of Katerina Izmailova, the revision of the score that Shostakovich produced in 1962 in an attempt to rehabilitate it with the Soviet authorities after its official condemnation in 1936). But unfortunately this new version, taken from one of the Boston performances, does not seriously challenge the existing choices. Oddly, each of the three previous commercial recordings, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, Myung-whun Chung and Ingo Metzmacher respectively, all take exactly the same time over the complete opera: 155 minutes. Here, Nelsons takes a whole 20 minutes longer. Though few passages seem to drag unduly, the difference in timings does confirm a lassitude in his performance; despite some of the individual contributions, there's a flatness to the proceedings, a lack of urgency, that undermines their dramatic impact. And, even though there's no shortage of loud, brash playing, Nelsons and the BSO tend to neuter a score that includes some of Shostakovich's most savagely ironic and parodic invention, a radical extreme from which he was forced to retreat. Hearing this account of the score, it's sometimes hard to understand why it should have offended Stalin so much. And while Kristine Opolais has her moments in the title role, her characterisation of Katerina is rather one-dimensional, doing a good line in the character's self-pity but little else. Brendan Gunnell is plausible enough as her lover Sergey, Peter Hoare suitably complaisant as her husband, Zinovy, with Günther Groissböck completing the menage à quatre as her bullying father-in-law Boris. All in all it's a disappointing ending to the Boston Shostakovich series. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
Boston Globe
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
BSO announces 2025 Tanglewood season
Music director Andris Nelsons, who took on the title of head of conducting at Tanglewood in 2024, will be on campus for the entire month of July, leading concerts with the BSO and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. The piano has a prominent presence during Nelsons's programs this summer; he's slated to conduct the BSO in piano concertos with soloists Daniil Trifonov (July 5); Yefim Bronfman (July 6); Seong-Jin Cho (July 12); Yuja Wang (July 20); Lang Lang (July 27); and Ax (July 26), who will be performing in the world premiere of Williams's new piano concerto. Nelsons will also lead a program featuring the BSO debut of Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who won first prize at the 2021 Menuhin Competition (July 25). Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang at Tanglewood in 2024. Hilary Scott Advertisement Opera fans will find plenty of interest this season. Nelsons leads a full concert performance of Puccini's 'Tosca,' featuring soprano Kristine Opolais and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel reprising the roles of Tosca and Scarpia respectively from the BSO's 2017 Tanglewood performance of the opera's Act II. Tenor SeokJong Baek makes his BSO and Tanglewood debuts as Cavaradossi (July 19). Nelsons also conducts a 'theatrical concert' of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' with actors from Concert Theatre Works directed by Bill Barclay and music to include Prokofiev (July 11); the second such collaboration for the orchestra after last March's take on 'Peer Gynt'. Later, in Ozawa Hall, American Modern Opera Company presents Matthew Aucoin's 'Music for New Bodies,' with libretto by poet Jorie Graham and staging by operatic maverick Peter Sellars. (Aug. 7) The BSO teams up with several impressive pairs of guest conductor and soloist in the Shed, including Elim Chan with Leonidas Kavakos (Aug. 2), Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Joshua Bell (Aug. 8), and Dima Slobodeniouk with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Aug. 17). Esa-Pekka Salonen makes his first Tanglewood appearance since 1985, conducting both the BSO (July 13) and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (July 14). The orchestra's assistant conductors also get in on the action; Samy Rachid leads the American premiere of Camille Pépin's 'Un monde nouveau' before Yo-Yo Ma joins him and the orchestra for Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1 (Aug. 10), and freshman assistant Anna Handler is slated to debut on a program featuring Augustin Hadelich (Aug. 16). Advertisement The Boston Pops also have their share of events at the Shed. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Pops host Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara in a concert inspired by Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett's 1962 special on CBS (July 18); later, Lockhart's 30th anniversary with the Pops is feted with a blowout concert, the lineup of guests including Bernadette Peters, Ben Folds, and Lynn Ahrens. (Note: The Tanglewood concert does not feature the same guests as Lockhart's 30th anniversary concert with the Pops in June at Symphony Hall.) Lockhart also conducts John Williams' Film Night (Aug. 9), while actor and conductor Damon Gupton makes his Tanglewood debut leading the orchestra in Williams's score for 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi', performed live along with the film (Aug. 1). The BSO, Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra unite for Tanglewood on Parade (Aug. 5). Left to right: Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax, Antoine Tamestit, and Yo-Yo Ma performing Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 at Tanglewood. Hilary Scott On the chamber music front, the season's buzziest event will likely be the all-Beethoven quartet concert at the Shed with Ma, Ax, Kavakos, and violist Antoine Tamestit (Aug. 3). Ma and Ax have been friends and creative partners nearly all their lives, while Kavakos first collaborated with them at Tanglewood in 2014 and has been regularly doing so ever since; the three sold out the Shed in 2023 with another all-Beethoven program. Tamestit joined those same three for a stunning performance of Dvořák's Piano Quartet No. 2 in a 2022 'Pathways from Prague' program curated by Ax, so this summer's event — featuring Shai Wosner's arrangements of 'Leonore' Overture No. 3 and the Symphony No. 3 , as well as the Trio No. 4 for piano, violin, and cello — is a sequel to that as well. Advertisement Ozawa Hall and the Linde Center for Music and Learning host bountiful chamber music throughout the summer as well. Several BSO guest soloists will also have Ozawa appearances, including Cho (July 13), Terfel (July 15), and Ma, who appears with string quartet Brooklyn Rider in their debut (Aug. 13). British vocal ensemble The Sixteen makes its Tanglewood debut with founding director (and Handel and Haydn Society conductor laureate) Harry Christophers in tow (Aug. 14). The TMC's Festival of Contemporary Music is this year directed by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, whose portrait album ' James Taylor performing in Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed in 2023. Hilary Scott The Popular Artists series lineup has not been completely announced, but so far, it includes 'A Prairie Home Companion' with host Garrison Keillor (June 21), a live recording session of NPR's news quiz 'Wait Wait. . . . Don't Tell Me!' with host Peter Sagal (Aug. 28), and a concert by Bonnie Raitt (Aug. 31). As per usual, James Taylor and his All-Star Band take over the Shed for two nights around Independence Day (July 3 & 4). 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