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Boston Modern Orchestra Project

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has had an outstanding reputation amongst Boston’s most innovative and performing arts organizations for attracting multi-generational audiences and providing thematic, diversified programming, and a national reputation for performing and recording new orchestral music at the highest level. Founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Gil Rose, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project strives to illuminate the connections that exist between both contemporary music and society by reuniting composers and audiences in a shared concert experience. The 2007-2008 BMOP season offers no fewer than 10 world premieres

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

By Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Label: BMOP/sound
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986)

Now Available: Premiere Recording Of Anthony Davis's Malcolm X Opera Starring Davone Tines

October 19, 2022

“The work is gripping, and it is unlike any other opera... X is a work that deserves to enter the American repertory... not just a stirring and well-fashioned opera but one whose music adds a new, individual voice to those previously heard in our opera houses.” —The New Yorker “Poignant…forceful…resonant” —The Boston Globe “A riveting and ...

Gunther Schuller: Journey Into Jazz

By Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Label: BMOP/sound
Released: 2009
Track listing: Variants for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra; Journey into Jazz; Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Gunther Schuller: Journey Into Jazz

by Ted Gordon
February 26, 2009

What might seem the most innocuous music is often the most avant-garde, the most challenging; the spark that forces the question of what defines the boundaries of jazz. Gunther Schuller's “Journey Into Jazz," composed in 1962, is just that: a children's narrative, telling the story of one Eddie Jackson, “a boy who learned about jazz," a ...

Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Gunther Schuller: Journey Into Jazz

by Ted Gordon
January 21, 2009

What might seem the most innocuous music is often the most avant-garde, the most challenging, and the spark that forces the question as to what are the boundaries of jazz. Gunther Schuller's “Journey Into Jazz," composed in 1962, is just that. A children's narrative, it tells the story of one Eddie Jackson, “a boy who learned ...

Boston Modern Orchestra Project Launches Record Label BMOP Sound

November 15, 2007

"BMOP is emerging as the national leader among orchestras of its ilk." --Boston Globe Roslindale, MA--The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation's leading orchestra dedicated exclusively to performing, commissioning, and recording new music, announces the prospective launch of its own CD label, BMOP Sound. With its debut scheduled for January 2008, BMOP Sound will become ...