Girl at the Opera

A Little Schumann with Your Beethoven?

November 30, 2014Sydney Boyd

A pizzicato—the string vibrating against the fingerboard, sound reverberating against the air for a tiny moment—opened all three pieces on the program last night at Jones Hall. Concluding Houston Symphony’s “Three Weeks of Beethoven,” the First and Fourth symphonies were… Continue Reading →

Houston Symphony Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Beethoven, Brinton Averil Smith, Girl at the Opera, Houston Symphony, Sydney Boyd

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Sydney Boyd is a critic in Houston, TX. She studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in 20th-century literature in the English PhD program at Rice University, and, occasionally, returns to her origins as a violinist.