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

The rain cleared Wednesday night just in time for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to open its free summer season with a “Best of Boston” concert at the Hatch Shell. Music director Christopher Wilkins ...

Abraham Lincoln’s words aren’t often set to music: among other things, his oratory possesses what Robert Frost called the “sound of sense,” which doesn’t require extra-verbal assistance. But that hasn ...

Boston Classical Review is seeking concert reviewers for the 2026-27 season. Solid knowledge of classical repertory is required as well as first-class writing skills. Classical reviewing and/or ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 season finale of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, led by Benjamin Zander with soloist Makoto Ozone, filled Symphony Hall with an ambitious program of American composers Sunday night. The ...

The New England Philharmonic closed its 49th season Saturday night at First Church Cambridge, with a program centered on Krzysztof Penderecki’s mighty Credo. The evening began with Cantares by NEP ...

Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko restored a seldom-heard Scriabin concerto to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire Thursday night at Symphony Hall, anchoring a Russian-leaning program of ...

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 ...

Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...