The Sibelius Symphony No. 1 that followed offered moments of similar intensity and, at times, gripping quietude. Completed in ...

Officially, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “E Pluribus Unum” festival ended at the beginning of February. But the grassroots demonstrations that have sprung up in support of music director Andris ...

“Key of E?” the playwright Franz Liebkind asks Max Bialystock during the first act of Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers. “Is there any other?” comes the reply. There wasn’t on Friday when Víkingur ...

There is, perhaps, no stranger ending to a major symphony than the closing bars of Jean Sibelius’s First: a fortississimo outburst, a sudden diminuendo, two chords, and the lights go out. 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 ...

“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 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 ...

Happiness, George Burns once quipped, is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Samuel Barber’s Vanessa showcases an alternative: the opera, with its libretto by Gian Carlo ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

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 ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...