Hoffer Concerto Premiere Highlights New England Philharmonic Program
Boston Classical Review
Jonathan Blumhofer
Published February 24, 2020
There is nothing complacent about the New England Philharmonic’s programming.
Sunday afternoon’s bracing matinee at Jordan Hall proved so again with a program titled “Together & Apart.” The concert offered the world premiere of a new concerto by Bernard Hoffer alongside music by John Adams and Judith Weir, plus an astonishingly belated Béla Bartók premiere.