On Thursday, BSO violinists Alexander Velinzon and Lucia Lin dispatched the unforgivingly exposed solo parts with a mix of ...
Between the night’s symphonic offerings, soprano Erin Morley joined Boston Baroque for a pair of Mozart arias. The American ...
Sometimes good things come in threes. Other times, they happen in fours. Take the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concert at Symphony Hall on Thursday night. There were, on the one hand, a trio of debuts: ...
Spring, the comedian Robin Williams once declared, is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 are a couple of musical equivalents to that ...
Some ballets, like The Rite of Spring, turn up on concert programs so frequently that it can be hard to imagine experiencing them in a theater. Gabriela Ortiz seems to have taken that reality to heart ...
Lang Lang remains a classical music superstar—especially among the younger listeners—and the pianist’s sold-out appearance Friday night in Symphony Hall provided a showcase for his dazzling virtuosity ...
Back in 1986, Midori made the front page of The New York Times after a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade at Tanglewood resulted in two broken E strings and the then-14-year-old playing on ...
There is a common misconception about the music Ludwig van Beethoven wrote during the so-called “early period” of his career in the 1790s. To wit that, because he spent those years studying with Franz ...
That the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has made a habit of performing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler shouldn’t blind one to the fact that doing so is completely out of the ordinary: this music ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a program of Liadov, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. Led by conductor Eun Sun Kim in her BSO debut and featuring pianist Inon ...