Lisbon is perhaps not the first name to enter one’s mind in cataloguing chief European musical cities. Nevertheless, it boasts a somewhat hidden secret asset that we happened upon during a recent trip ...

Caroline Shaw, violin and voice, and Andrew Yee, cello, explored “...intersections between sound, composition, and physical landscapes” in “ArtsThursday.” ...

Kent Nagano and the BSO premiere Tod Machover’s already and not yet at Symphony Hall October 22–24, with a live AI system from the MIT Media Lab playing alongside the orchestra. What is the AI doing, ...

Acronym, which describes itself as a “17 th-century string band,” created this concert in correspondence with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” ...

Devotees of chamber music gathered at Gore Place in Waltham on Sunday in a room that was built for such a concert to witness the inaugural performance of L’Armonia Boston (LAB) that was birthed by a ...

Steinberg himself arranged Shostakovich’s 1951 Fugue in E-flat minor, Op. 87, No. 14, for strings, with the specific intent of preparing us for Shostakovich’s 1974 String Quartet No. 15 by acclimating ...

This week’s BSO offering (the first evening just over), featuring dance music without dancers, intrigued many, with thrum filling the air before a note sounded. Tchaikovsky, a vaunted master of scores ...

I play the piano, which makes me a lucky amateur in one way and an unlucky one in another. Lucky, because there’s more solo piano music than anyone could get through in a lifetime. Unlucky, because it ...

Last Sunday marked the 130 th anniversary of the death of Anton Bruckner. It also marked the Boston premiere of his First Symphony. You’d think that the BSO would have done every Bruckner symphony by ...

In 1979, Benjamin Zander founded the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra; in 2012, he established the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. The 2026–2027 season will be the final one for the two orchestras, ...