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 ...

That show-must-go-on greeting from conductor Christopher Wilkins opened the Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert Wednesday night—not at the usual Hatch Shell but indoors at Emmanuel Church, where the ...

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 ...

Michael Tilson Thomas died Wednesday at his home in the San Francisco Bay area. Artistic director laureate of the New World Symphony and former music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, ...

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 ...

In a surprise announcement on Friday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stated that Andris Nelsons will conclude his 12-year tenure as music director at the end of the 2027 Tanglewood season. The ...

“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 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 ...

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.

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 ...