Celebrating a birthday around the holidays can be a tricky proposition. Fortunately, the first concert of Boston Cecilia’s 150th anniversary season managed to avoid being overshadowed by the impending ...

Celebrating a birthday around the holidays can be a tricky proposition. Fortunately, the first concert of Boston Cecilia’s 150th anniversary season managed to avoid being overshadowed by the impending ...

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 ...

In classical music these days, it seems the only thing that separates the top-flight professional groups from youth ensembles is, well, youth. Training is now so effective that many young musicians ...

To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more ...

Music by Mahler, Loeffler, Koechlin, Saint-Saëns and Beach. Boston Symphony Chamber Players/Earl Lee. October 5. The upcoming 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence promises plenty of ...

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 ...

“When good Americans die,” Oscar Wilde said, “they go to Paris.” Sometimes, though, Paris comes to America. So it happened that the Orchestre National de France found itself at Mechanics Hall in ...

Some ballets, like The Rite of Spring, turn up on concert programs so frequently that it can be hard to imagine experiencing them in a theater. Gabriela Ortiz seems to have taken that reality to heart ...

The Handel & Haydn Society wasted no time getting into the spirit of this year’s extra-long Christmas season, returning to Symphony Hall on Friday night for their annual traversal of George Frederic ...

Back in 1986, Midori made the front page of The New York Times after a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade at Tanglewood resulted in two broken E strings and the then-14-year-old playing on ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...