Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that ...

The James Burton-prepared TFC sang with tonal warmth and good diction. They brought vigor to bear on their various “laudate” ...

On Tuesday, Kissin imbued this section’s desolate turns of melody and harmony with soulful, almost bluesy, intensity. The ...

Composers can’t always be trusted to objectively assess their own works. However, William Walton’s appraisal of his Cello Concerto holds up: “It is to my mind the best of my three concertos,” he wrote ...

There’s nothing like an anniversary to encourage an orchestra’s programming. Take Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Intent on marking the occasion of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death fifty ...

A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as when an instrument begins to breathe, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra certainly knows how to make their instruments sing. Sunday afternoon’s program at Second ...

It’s no secret that Arnold Schoenberg admired Johannes Brahms. Less well-known is the fact that the latter reciprocated: shortly before his death in 1897, the man Schumann once dubbed the heir to ...

“What do you think this music is about?” Leonard Bernstein asked the audience during a 1958 Young People’s Concert on the subject of music and meaning. He then played a snatch of the William Tell ...