The latter was the feast day of the choir’s namesake, the Roman Catholic patron saint of music. As it happens, she is ...

Celebrating a birthday around the holidays can be a tricky proposition. Fortunately, the first concert of Boston Cecilia’s 150th anniversary season managed to avoid being overshadowed by the impending ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

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.

Complete cycles of the Beethoven symphonies aren’t for the faint of heart. Just ask Lorin Maazel, whose 1988 traversal of the set included a respirator in the dressing room—just in case. Then again, ...

There’s nothing like an anniversary to encourage an orchestra’s programming. Take Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Intent on marking the occasion of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death fifty ...

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 ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a three-day-long bash at Tanglewood that included a three-hour concert in the ...

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 ...

“I am in hell!” The words belong to Fletcher Christian, but they apply equally well to the characters in Matthew Aucoin’s opera Eurydice, which received its local premiere Friday night at The ...

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 ...