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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anniversaries can be tricky to get right, for institutions as much as individuals. But the final program of Boston Cecilia’s 150 th season hit the mark. Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, ...

“[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and pianist Bryan Wagorn delivered an illuminating recital in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston on Friday night, hosted by Celebrity Series of Boston.

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 ...

The Semiosis Quartet performed “An American Century,” a program of music by American women composers. Like a lot of talented Americans of the 20th Century trying to perfect their art, Ruth Crawford ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...