Philip Glass’s 90th birthday in January provides the impetus for pianist Ólafsson’s local return, a recital that pairs music ...

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 ...

Symphony Hall was ablaze with music, dance, and poetry Friday night as the Back Bay Chorale, in collaboration with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Boston Children’s Choir, performed Carl ...

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 ...

Sometimes, despite its imposing grandeur and marvelous acoustic, Symphony Hall can feel like an extension of one’s living room. On Friday, it radiated homey vibes. Part of this owed to the Boston ...

“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 ...

In its season finale Friday night, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presented the young Arrow Quartet in an illuminating performance tracing the development of the string quartet with works by ...

But the comedian probably wasn’t taking the Bachs into account: the clan’s decades-long ethic of creative, resourceful, and inventive music-making suggests, if not necessarily domestic comity then a ...

Such was the intensity of the cheering that greeted Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall that one could be forgiven for thinking the ensemble ...

Andris Nelsons’ annual opera-in-concert weekends with the Boston Symphony Orchestra usually showcase the conductor at his best. This year’s surely did, with the culminating installment of the ...

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 ...

“[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 ...