In an age of pop music and streaming, the traditional narrative has been that classical music is now a relic of the past, appreciated by few and adored by a graying audience. However, the Boston ...

An all-volunteer orchestra will perform a special show for a good cause Sunday at Boston's Symphony Hall. The Kendall Square Orchestra has nearly 100 members and most are classically trained musicians ...

Oct. 15, 1900. L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was a best-selling book; William McKinley was about to get elected for a second term as president of the United States (which would be cut ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will open its 2025–26 season with two free concerts at Symphony Hall, celebrating artistry and community. Concert for the City will take place on September 17, ...

Associate Professor of the Practice, Director of the Boston College Symphony Orchestra Anna Wittstruck joined the Department of Music at Boston College in Fall 2023 as Associate Professor of the ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has offered Boston listeners a first preview of some of next season’s Symphony Hall offerings, with the announcement of two programs to be performed at Carnegie Hall in ...

The fifth iteration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Concert for the City,” held on Sept. 21 at the Symphony Hall, had a large task at hand. It had to prove to its large audience that its music — ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Handel and Haydn Society have been sharing the stage at Symphony Hall ever since the earliest days, when H+H performed Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” just six ...

Violinists Jenny Ahn, Sophie Wang, and Takumi Taguchi; clarinetists Christopher Elchico and Andrew Sandwick; cellist Will Chow; and Assistant Librarian Russel Allyn are the newest members of the ...

Confronting the challenge of wooing listeners back to concerts, widening the audience by appealing to multi-generational groups, and pushing an often-insular industry perceived as elitist by some into ...

“Forte, FORTE! Not mezzo-piano,” conductor Federico Cortese shouted at the Boston Youth Symphony, gesticulating forcefully to cut off the 70-odd teenage musicians mid-phrase. “It takes four beats to ...