That was a perfectly justified response, given the excitement and sweep of the BPO’s performance. This was the third time the ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 schedule this week. Music director Andris Nelsons, whose term at the ...

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This has certainly been an atypical spring residency for the conductor who, it was announced in early March, will not be ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 schedule this week. Music director Andris Nelsons, whose term at the orchestra’s helm will end in August 2027, leads fifteen weeks of concerts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...

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 ...