Clad in a poncho, baritone Marcelo Guzzo, brought commanding presence and a resonant timbre to his role as vocalist and guide ...

Try though they might, not every season opener qualifies as a bona fide “event.” But Music Worcester’s did on Friday night. With the Philip Glass Ensemble on hand to curate a selection of the iconic ...

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 ...

Composers can’t always be trusted to objectively assess their own works. However, William Walton’s appraisal of his Cello Concerto holds up: “It is to my mind the best of my three concertos,” he wrote ...

While the liturgical calendar is winding its way through the later weeks of Ordinary Time, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus peeked ahead a couple months to Advent on Friday night at ...

Along with his famous shock of gray hair, conductor Benjamin Zander is also known for his enthusiasm, eloquence and fearless dedication to his orchestras and their individual players. Zander at 84, ...

The New England Philharmonic offered a typically bracing program on the theme of New England at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center on Sunday afternoon. In its exploration of local landscapes ...

“Progress depends above all on the temper of the nation,” Anthony Eden told the House of Commons in 1938. “And that temper must find expression in a firm spirit.” The former foreign secretary and ...

Such was the intensity of the cheering that greeted Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall that one could be forgiven for thinking the ensemble ...

Boston Cecilia concluded its 143 rd season Sunday afternoon in Brookline at All Saints Parish with a survey of four American choral works written in the last half-century. The earliest selection was ...

Christmas came to Jordan Hall Thursday night, courtesy of the Handel and Haydn Society’s Yuletide program. Though just two of the concert’s six offerings were explicitly seasonal, the larger spirit of ...

On paper, the lineup for pianists Víkingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang’s duo recital on Friday at Symphony Hall didn’t make much sense. John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow, for instance, don’t normally share ...