But that hasn’t stopped Philip Glass from appropriating the 16th president as a character in three of his theater works and, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 schedule this week. Music director Andris Nelsons, whose term at the orchestra’s helm will end in August 2027, leads fifteen weeks of concerts, ...

There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

“I am in hell!” The words belong to Fletcher Christian, but they apply equally well to the characters in Matthew Aucoin’s opera Eurydice, which received its local premiere Friday night at The ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard released a well-received recording of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier in 2014 on DG. The celebrated French pianist has finally followed that up with Book II (this time for ...