The occasion was the final installment of the BSO’s month-long “E Pluribus Unum” festival. Though its offerings have been haphazard and hardly comprehensive, the jubilee has launched the orchestra and ...

On Thursday, the orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons celebrated their colleague as part of this month’s “E Pluribus ...

“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...

To judge from his appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons on Thursday night, Yo-Yo Ma isn’t just the world’s most famous cellist. He’s also a collegial mensch. No sooner had ...

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” How welcome when a concert program does the same. Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers ...

There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too. On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

Music by Mahler, Loeffler, Koechlin, Saint-Saëns and Beach. Boston Symphony Chamber Players/Earl Lee. October 5. The upcoming 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence promises plenty of ...

Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision needn’t come at the expense of depth, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s shortish program on Thursday night demonstrated. Led by Sir ...

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 ...

Verdi was an opera composer at his core and his Messa da Requiem exemplifies what happens when theatrical sensibilities meet a sacred text. In some ways, his dramatic style can feel distracting from ...