A concert made up entirely of new works takes utter confidence. Wagering on the unknown in their season finale at Jordan Hall ...

Premieres are a gamble. A concert made up entirely of new works takes utter confidence. Wagering on the unknown in their season finale at Jordan Hall Sunday night, Gil Rose led the Boston Modern ...

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 ...

“Key of E?” the playwright Franz Liebkind asks Max Bialystock during the first act of Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers. “Is there any other?” comes the reply. There wasn’t on Friday when Víkingur ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Tilson Thomas died Wednesday at his home in the San Francisco Bay area. Artistic director laureate of the New World Symphony and former music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...

“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 ...

Whenever Thomas Adès comes to town to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it’s an open question what will be more absorbing: his program–which is invariably one of the season’s most thoughtful and ...

An expansive and impassioned survey of violin sonatas highlighted the concert by Lisa Batiashvili and Giorgi Gigashvili Friday night at Jordan Hall, the final classical event of the season for Vivo ...

It’s hardly an accepted, universal truth, but string players can make very good composers. Sunday’s strings-only concert from Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra at Newton’s Second Church emphasized that point ...