But that hasn’t stopped Philip Glass from appropriating the 16th president as a character in three of his theater works and, ...

Abraham Lincoln’s words aren’t often set to music: among other things, his oratory possesses what Robert Frost called the “sound of sense,” which doesn’t require extra-verbal assistance. But that hasn ...

“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience into a hushed reverence which continued mostly unbroken for ninety minutes at ...

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 ...

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.

Channing Yu conducted the Mercury Orchestra Wednesday night at Jordan Hall. File photo: Mercury Orchestra Works based upon Irish themes once graced the symphonic repertoire. Following in the footsteps ...

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 ...

Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, and in various ways, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons demonstrated in their traversal of works by Mozart and ...

The New England Philharmonic closed its 49th season Saturday night at First Church Cambridge, with a program centered on Krzysztof Penderecki’s mighty Credo. The evening began with Cantares by NEP ...

Typically, out-of-town tryouts start in Boston and end up in New York. But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...