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Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that ...
On Thursday, the Concerto returned to Symphony Hall, where Piatigorsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its premiere in ...
On Tuesday, Kissin imbued this section’s desolate turns of melody and harmony with soulful, almost bluesy, intensity. The ...
The James Burton-prepared TFC sang with tonal warmth and good diction. They brought vigor to bear on their various “laudate” ...
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.
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...