Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that the clock ran out Saturday on both the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Decoding ...

Leland Ko performed Walton’s Cello Concerto with Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Friday night at Symphony Hall. Photo: Hilary Scott ...

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 ...

A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.

One Response to “Nelsons opens BSO’s Shostakovich festival with a riveting Eleventh Symphony” Posted Apr 13, 2025 at 4:51 pm by Gerry Katz Thanks for identifying the encore. However, I thought it ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blomstedt brings insight, relaxed lyricism to Brahms and Schubert with BSO ...