Officially, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “E Pluribus Unum” festival ended at the beginning of February. But the grassroots ...
Ólafsson’s playing consistently drew out the richness and variety of the writing, especially in the opening Toccata. Here, ...
Poetry of a more explicit variety came after intermission in the form of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. Inspired by Byron’s ...
Officially, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “E Pluribus Unum” festival ended at the beginning of February. But the grassroots demonstrations that have sprung up in support of music director Andris ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...