Re: Boston

[dan sumner <permadan@yahoo.com>]

The New England Conservatory has concerts nearly every
night of the week and most are free.  They feature
faculty, students, and/or guest musicians and are
almost always very musical.  Just check out the
faculty list sometime.
--- Sean Witters <seanwitters@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dain,
> I moved to Boston last fall from Burlington, Vt;
> here's my take on the music 
> scene:  Alt-Rock still rules the clubs here (ya know
> a bill with six bands 
> on it all trying to sound like the Pixes or
> Pavement).  There is a Jazz 
> pulse but if you want a heartbeat go to New York. 
> In Boston you have to 
> seek out your musical experiences with a bit more
> diligence.  The most 
> interesting stuff seems to happen in random places,
> old churches, galleries 
> and microscopic bars.  Good stuff does happen with
> reasonable regularity at 
> the Somerville Theatre, the Middle East, and
> (occasionally) the Paradise; of 
> course, who can miss The Fringe with Garzone and
> Gullatti on Mondays at the 
> Lizard Lounge in Cambridge.  I've left out the
> Regatta Bar because I don't 
> like it, but it does feature top jazz performers
> (B.Marsalis, Abercrombie, 
> Either Orch., Sco...) in an "intimate setting".  The
> downside with that 
> place is that it's in the most exclusive hotel in
> Cambridge, the room is 
> sterile and the audience is generally a bunch of
> "refined" jazz conniseurs 
> who have kenny-g along side their copy of "Kind of
> Blue" (was that bitter, 
> sorry).
> Berklee provides plenty of musicians but they seem
> to me to be off in their 
> own little world; of course, if you want really
> scary horn players there is 
> the New England Conservatory.  I've made some
> contacts but all the musicians 
> I've met so far are either not interesting or are
> totally unreliable (come 
> to think of it that's kind of the way it goes
> everywhere; maybe I've just 
> run out of patience).
> There are plenty of Music stores, my two current
> favorites are New England 
> Vintage guitars (a guitar/amp repair shop that
> doubles as the jawa set from 
> Star Wars) and Mr. Music which has a great
> collection of used Guitars and 
> Amps.  There are also the usual suspects, Guitar
> Center (echo..center, 
> center)and Daddy's Junk Music.
> That's my synopsis.  I've lived here for 8 months
> and I still haven't really 
> figured this place out, either.  Perhaps I'm missing
> out on something in 
> Boston.  Anyone have some tips?  Is there a mecca I
> haven't discovered yet?
> 
> 
>
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