Month: March 2017

I’m teaching a cool class in the fall

March 21, 2017Sydney Boyd

Intermission Humanities Research Center, Rice University

Impersonal Mendelssohn/Personal Tchaikovsky

March 13, 2017Sydney Boyd

On Thursday at the Houston Symphony, it was a mixed bag. Whether or not concerto soloists use sheet music in performance is up for debate, but it always just gives me the impression that they weren’t ready. Read my review at… Continue Reading →

Houston Symphony Fabien Gabel, Houston Symphony, Ingrid Fliter

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About Me

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.