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 ...

One Response to “Nelsons closes BSO’s Beethoven symphony cycle with glimpse of Promised Land” Posted Feb 07, 2025 at 2:43 pm by John L. Hodge This is a letter that I sent to the Boston Globe, which ...

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 ...

Tianhui Ng’s tenure as the New England Philharmonic’s new music director kicked off in style Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall. Granted, it was just one concert, but on the merits the new era looks a ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

1. Music by Korngold, Mozart and Andrew Norman. Kirill Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The Berlin Philharmonic’s visits to Boston haven’t once, in this century at least, disappointed.

Such was the intensity of the cheering that greeted Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall that one could be forgiven for thinking the ensemble ...

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under founding conductor Benjamin Zander opened their season Sunday at Symphony Hall with an intense program devoted to the relationship between old and new.

Danielle Maddon was the soloist in the world premiere of Bernard Hoffer’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the New England Philharmonic Sunday at Jordan Hall.

Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that the clock ran out Saturday on both the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Decoding ...

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 ...

The singers of Seraphim delivered an uplifting concert at Holy Name Parish in West Roxbury Saturday night. The program, titled “Inspired to Joy,” included works from the Renaissance to the 21 st ...