The Nutcracker Opening of the Nutcracker at Boston Ballet signals the beginning of winter holiday season for us! Dressing up and attending the performance in lavishly decorated Boston Opera House is a true celebration of the season (and our cherished Mom-Daughter tradition which I hope gets to continue for a long time!). Boston Ballet’s staging …
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In the evening of Thanksgiving Thursday this year we headed to New York City (from our home in a suburb of Boston) for a 2-day family holiday weekend. Thanksgiving weekend is a traditional museum and theater weekend in our family. It is a great weekend to spend in NYC as there are plenty of museums …
Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its 143rd Season last week with a series of 10 concerts (October 5–21) conducted by its Music Director Andris Nelsons (now in his 10th season with the Orchestra). This early fall series will feature both classical favorites as well as prominent contemporary composers – performed in Boston Symphony Hall– one of …
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Boston Ballet opens its 60th Season with FALL EXPERIENCE- a program of 4 unique modern ballets. The Company has been known for its work with leading modern choreographers from different parts of the world, but I feel that this program is its most unique to date. The evening went by in the blink of an …
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Last summer we spent 4 nights on Amalfi coast of Italy and it was as strikingly scenic as we have imagined it (it was also very crowded– but more about that later). I have been dreaming about visiting Amalfi coast (Unesco World Heritage Site) for a long time but was uncomfortable with the idea of …
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Tanglewood music center in Massachusetts Berkshires has been part of our summer weekends for over 10 years now. This is as long as our younger kid Viv can remember! We love everything about Tanglewood – diverse summer programming, that you can dress up or down, that you can enjoy the concerts while relaxing at the …
TANGLEWOOD SUMMER 2023: check out full List of Summer 2023 PERFORMANCES. Attending a Tanglewood concert is our family’s beloved summer tradition! Tanglewood, (in its 85th season in the summer of 2023), is summer home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and a center for advanced musical studies that welcomes nation’s leading young artists every summer to train …
At the end of May 2020, after 10 weeks of quarantine in our Massachusetts home, we drove for 22 hours straight to Sarasota, Florida to get a little bit of sun and fresh air. We enjoyed it so much, we have since returned several times (it is now our favorite area for Florida vacations!). Getting …
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Boston Ballet started its spring season with Nureyev’s Don Quixote (March 16-26), a full-length, three-act story ballet with a long history with the company. (Music by Ludwig Minkus, adapted and arranged by John Lanchbery). Don Quixote the ballet is only loosely based on the namesake book by the 17th century Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes …
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We have recently spent 4 days on Sao Miguel island in the Azores. Azores (an autonomous region of Portugal) is a 9-island archipelago located in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, some 870 miles west of Lisbon. Volcanic Azores are known for its hiking trails but as a non-hiker I was worried about finding things to do to …
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