Saturday, December 29, 2012
Nathaniel Meyer conducting the 5th Symphony at 2 p.m. at the Beech Street Center.
Nathaniel Meyer was thinking – as everyone who had heard the news – about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and how the heartbreaking event connects to the work he is conducting Saturday afternoon, Dec. 29: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. "[The fifth symphony] is a piece that deals with the movement of the human spirit from a place of tragedy to a place of triumph. I didn't really know that this piece would take on such meaning for me but we all heard about the [shooting] in Connecticut so there is no way I can play this piece without thinking about about those events," said Meyer. "I can't speak for everyone but [the tragic event] will definitely be on my mind," said Meyer. Meyer will conduct the Belmont Festival …
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Music Director Nathaniel Meyer talks about Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony today at 4 p.m. at Beech Street Center.
Nathaniel Meyer is back in town and that can only mean one thing: the 20-year-old Yale student is bringing his musician friends together for a concert. For the second December in a row, Meyer will lead The Belmont Music Festival Orchestra in a musical offering to the town. This year, Meyer – the BMF's musical director – and the orchestra will perform Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat major, Op. 55, the 'Eroica' (or Heroic), on Friday, Dec. 30 at 1 p.m. at the Beech Street Center, 266 Beech St. The orchestra, featuring 13 alumni from the Belmont Public Schools music program and friends from youth and college ensembles, marks their fourth visit to Belmont's Senior Center for concerts that filled the hall with music enthusiasts. The …
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Belmont's Nathaniel Meyer prepares second edition of Summer Music Festival this weekend.
"Eight from C," said Nathaniel Meyer to the 50 members of the Belmont Summer Music Festival Orchestra, tell them where in the score of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony he wants to go over once again. "Like it is in nature," he tells the musicians, many – if not most – who are personal friends, musical colleagues of his in middle school and high school and now college. He makes a few gestures to the cellos, glances towards to woodwinds and then a downbeat. The last movement of the 8th begins to sweep over the Beech Street Center on Friday night, the final of three night rehearsals of the symphony and Dvorak's Cello Concerto by this group of mostly young musicians. For the second time, the 20-year-old Yale sophomore brings to his home town a music …
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Nathaniel Meyer and Belmont Summer Music Festival returns this weekend with Dvorak.
It's been a busy year for Nathaniel Meyer since he stepped off the podium after leading the wildly successful inaugural Belmont Summer Music Festival a year ago. Meyer returned for his sophomore year at Yale, selected a major – not in music but there's a reason for that – conducted a "very quietly promoted" concert this past winter in Belmont (appropriately Wagner's "Seigfried's Idyll" was on the bill) spent part of the summer in a conductors master class in London with his mentor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director Benjamin Zander, and then off to Bulgaria for even more conducting. "I really didn't know how busy I was until I got back from Europe," Meyer said. With all that under his belt, one couldn't begrudge the 20-year-…
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