Celebrating its 150th season in “A Feast of Remembrance,” Boston Cecilia, led by music director Michael Barrett, offered a program of Bach, Handel, and Purcell Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall that ...

While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work ...

Completed in 1896, the sprawling, six-movement score is the composer’s longest and perhaps most audacious musical undertaking, with a Dante-esque program that traces a course from the depths of the ...

Artistic inspiration can come from the most unexpected places.

“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 ...

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 ...

Fitchburg, Massachusetts doesn’t loom large in the annals of music history. But the town in the Commonwealth’s north-central region has at least one claim to fame: it witnessed the first Boston ...

A smart pairing of Mozart and Haydn with a Telemann rarity by artistic director Jonathan Cohen produced an unusually unified and rewarding concert by the Handel and Haydn Society Friday night at a ...

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 ...

Move over Johann Strauss: nothing says “Happy New Year” like Mozart. That was the case for the Boston Artists Ensemble on Sunday afternoon, when a capacity crowd gathered at Brookline’s St. Paul’s ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a three-day-long bash at Tanglewood that included a three-hour concert in the ...

“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 ...