After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

As if in pilgrimage, three resolute singers carried a melody down the nave toward the stage to open La Donna Musicale’s concert at the Church of the Covenant last Sunday. Their seamless blend with the ...

Before speaker Sean K. Ellis spoke a word, much of the audience was on its feet, applauding him. Yesterday, on the eve of Indigenous People’s Day weekend and with midterm elections looming, the ...

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 ...