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 ...

New England might be in the grip of a winter with seemingly limitless reserves of snow and ice, but the Boston Symphony Orchestra took a decidedly autumnal view of things for Herbert Blomstedt’s ...

This was achieved, principally, by leaning into the music’s dancing impetus, an approach that’s not as far-fetched as it may seem: Brahms once joked to a friend that the Fourth was merely “a bunch of ...

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

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 ...

Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2, on the other hand, hails from an entirely different world, historically, stylistically, and expressively. Written in 1980 as a memorial to the composer’s friend, ...

“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 ...

“[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 ...

Genius, Edison told us, is mostly the result of hard work. Too much of it, though, can lead to deleterious ends: as Jan Swafford’s recent biography convincingly argues, overwork played an outsized ...

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 ...