To lead off the afternoon, Zander and the Philharmonic offered a characterful traversal of Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz ...
Such was the case on Thursday night when the conductor presided over the American premiere of Francisco Coll’s Piano Concerto ...
Musing on decades-old twists of fate isn’t exactly a Zander pastime—his is generally a forward-thinking, in-the-moment type ...
Subtlety may deceive you, Oliver Cromwell warned. Integrity never will. The adage would apply, it seems, both to the title character in Rossini’s opera William Tell—he’s a man of action and his ...
The Boston Artists Ensemble opened its 45th season by taking on Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, amid pouring rain Sunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Church in Brookline. The quintet was ...
“Muß es sein?” Beethoven scrawled at the beginning of the finale of his last string quartet. That conundrum (“Must it be?”) loomed large for Sofia Gubaidulina, whose music often wrestled with big ...
Composers don’t usually apologize for the music they write. But Franz Josef Haydn saw fit to put a disclaimer on the end of Part 2 of his oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons). “This whole passage ...
The Esplanade was packed for the finale of Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 25th anniversary. Even the geese showed up on cue, both onstage and off. Christopher Wilkins led the Boston Landmarks Orchestra ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...