In 1979, Benjamin Zander founded the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, debuting with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. In 2012, Zander ...

Steinberg himself arranged Shostakovich’s 1951 Fugue in E-flat minor, Op. 87, No. 14, for strings, with the specific intent of preparing us for Shostakovich’s 1974 String Quartet No. 15 by acclimating ...

Cohen composed Stone and Earth for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra 1978, during his first year of teaching at MIT, and ...

Seventy-five years ago, on October 6, 1951, the first transmission from a new-fangled FM transmitter began emanating from the crest of Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, hence WGBH. October 6th ...

This past January at the Church of the Covenant, Tianyi Timothy Ren led the Helix Ensemble in its debut with two pieces for ...

The selection of three American composers, each of them famous enough in past decades to be included on the Hatch Shell ...

As if in pilgrimage, three resolute singers carried a melody down the nave toward the stage to open La Donna Musicale’s concert at the Church of the Covenant last Sunday. Their seamless blend with the ...

It’s probably not a huge surprise that two musicians dreamed of a situation where both of them can choose the repertoire that they want to play and invite really exciting people to join them.” And so ...

I play the piano, which makes me a lucky amateur in one way and an unlucky one in another. Lucky, because there’s more solo piano music than anyone could get through in a lifetime. Unlucky, because it ...

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra opened its 25 th season of free concerts at the Hatch Shell Wednesday night with a rousing salute to American music. Under the baton of conductor Christopher Wilkins, ...

Throughout the musical world, Randall Thompson is known for his choral masterpiece, Alleluia, composed for the very first Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in 1940. Intended for the whole ...

It seems pretty unlikely, but Thursday night’s special in Ozawa Hall, labeled “Tanglewood Recital Series,” featuring all the cellists of the BSO in mixed reunion, plus (as a special finale) all the ...