The Ides of March may have been unlucky for Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. But it was a very good day this year for contemporary ...

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 ...

Sometimes titles are deceiving. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, for instance, only lasts around an hour. But such is the music’s scope and aura that its fifteen movements can resonate in the ...

The first two movements were outstandingly rich-toned and lean, modeling big dynamic contrasts and a noble sense of musical drama. In the first movement, the mysterious pianissimo “reveals” in its ...

In a surprise announcement on Friday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stated that Andris Nelsons will conclude his 12-year tenure as music director at the end of the 2027 Tanglewood season. The ...

Vivo Performing Arts has a new leader. Thor Steingraber will be the next president and CEO of the leading Boston fine arts presenter (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston).

Shakespeare, for once, had it backwards: better three hours too soon, his Master Ford tells us, than one minute too late. For their first appearance in Boston since October 2001, the adage might be ...

Bartolomeo Montalbano’s Sinfonia Quarta “Geloso” immediately set the tone for the evening. Flexible phrasing and sensitive ...

“I do not ask for my music to be interpreted,” Maurice Ravel once offered. “Just that it be played.” If only the French master could have been at Jordan Hall on Friday night when the Danish String ...