At the Gardner Museum next weekend, A Far Cry will perform Ottorino Respighi’s 1927 “Trittico Botticelliano”: musical impressions of three paintings — “Spring,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” and “The ...

There was something about the brilliant colors, the complex, richly drawn scenes and maybe the use of light that made Ottorino Respighi translate paintings by Botticelli into music. He called his ...

Respighi's Spring from his Botticelli Triptych is a tribute not only to the icnoic painting, but also the musical style of Vivaldi. It's part of our music this morning beginning at 9 am on 91.1 and ...