Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Coqueteos,” from Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, brought the tightest ensemble work of the evening. The players were audibly connected to the music’s humor, flourishing runs, and ...
The rain cleared Wednesday night just in time for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to open its free summer season with a “Best of Boston” concert at the Hatch Shell. Music director Christopher Wilkins ...
The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra will shut down permanently after the 2026-2027 season after 48 years of bringing classical music to area concertgoers. Managing director Sean Lewis announced Tuesday ...
Typically, out-of-town tryouts start in Boston and end up in New York. But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated ...
There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...
Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko restored a seldom-heard Scriabin concerto to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire Thursday night at Symphony Hall, anchoring a Russian-leaning program of ...
A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.
Tis the season for musical marathons, at least in New England. A little more than a week after the Boston Symphony Orchestra wrapped its survey of the complete Beethoven symphonies, the Celebrity ...
“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...
The New England Philharmonic closed its 49th season Saturday night at First Church Cambridge, with a program centered on Krzysztof Penderecki’s mighty Credo. The evening began with Cantares by NEP ...
The Semiosis Quartet performed “An American Century,” a program of music by American women composers. Like a lot of talented Americans of the 20th Century trying to perfect their art, Ruth Crawford ...
The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...