On Friday night, the Boston Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander delivered the final concert of their 45 th season. The program ...
Throughout, the Bambergers’ playing demonstrated impeccable balances—one could hear various inner voices emerging from the ...
Over that timeframe, a series of slowly morphing gestures are passed through the orchestra. As they rise and splinter, other ...
George Frideric Handel’s Messiah isn’t the only oratorio about the life of Christ: in addition to the Bach Passions, there are, among others, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, Liszt’s Christus, and ...
Tucked away at the Second Church in Newton, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra delivered a charming meditation on music and nature on Sunday afternoon. Led by composer and guest conductor Jeff Beal, Pro ...
Arnold Schoenberg thought so highly of Johannes Brahms that he grafted the scion of conservative 19 th-century German musical values into his artistic family tree. In a 1947 essay, Schoenberg, the ...
Kids and, sometimes, conductors say the darndest things. In a 1980 talk to the American Symphony Orchestra League, Leonard Bernstein posited that Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements (completed in ...
Considering the variety and invention of his writing, it’s surprising that Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories haven’t figured more prominently in the opera house. Then again, there’s no guarantee an ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Andris Nelsons’ first decade as music director while also highlighting new and recent initiatives in its 2024-25 season, which was announced Thursday. Though ...