The latest news on performances of Classical Music in Boston.
Tanglewood Spotlight Series with Yo-Yo Ma and Carrie Mae Weems Canceled
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 17, 2023
he Tanglewood Spotlight Series featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Carrie Mae Weems on August 19 has been canceled. Get the latest update on this highly anticipated performance and find out more details about the cancellation. Stay informed with our entertainment news....
Single Tickets For The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2023–24 Season On Sale Now
by A.A. Cristi - August 15, 2023
Fall programs at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Andris Nelsons in his tenth season, feature distinguished soloists, important new works, and a weeklong celebration of Hungarian composer György Ligeti's centennial through chamber and orchestral concerts. ...
Pilgrim Festival Chorus to Hold Fall Open Rehearsals & Auditions in September
by Blair Ingenthron - August 06, 2023
Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), a South Shore-based premiere volunteer community choral ensemble, will invite singers to “Open Rehearsals and Auditions” on Mondays, September 11 and 18, 6:30 pm, at Faith Community Church....
Boston Symphony Orchestra Approves New Three-Year Labor Agreement
by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2023
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's musicians and Board of Trustees are pleased to announce that they have ratified a new three-year labor agreement to take effect on August 28....
Avery Amereau Replaces Isabel Leonard For Tanglewood Performance This Saturday Evening
by A.A. Cristi - July 26, 2023
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has had to withdraw from this Saturday's performance of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été due to illness. ...
Experience the Magic of TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE 2023: Music, Activities, and Entertainment for the Whole Family
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 25, 2023
Get ready for an unforgettable experience at TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE 2023. This event brings together music, activities, and entertainment that the whole family will enjoy. Don't miss out on this magical musical extravaganza with surprises in store for everyone....
Lowell Chamber Orchestra Announces Fifth Concert Season
by A.A. Cristi - July 05, 2023
The Lowell Chamber Orchestra has officially announced its fifth season, which will be comprised of seven concerts starting in September of this year, and running all the way until June of next year....
Michael Feinstein & More to Perform at Tanglewood in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 05, 2023
Learn who is performing at Tanglewood July 10-23!...
Grammy-Nominated Tenor Nicholas Phan to Return to Tanglewood & More This Summer
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 30, 2023
Fresh from a successful role debut in the San Francisco Symphony’s production of the late Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater, Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan is embarking on a full summer. Learn where you can see Phan perform!...
Boston Baroque to Launch Social Media Contest - The Ornament Challenge
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 28, 2023
Boston Baroque is launching a social media contest, where one grand prize winner will win a chance to travel to Boston in October 2023....
John Legend to Perform at Tanglewood in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 21, 2023
Multiplatinum singer-songwriter and 12-time Grammy winner John Legend will join The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Labor Day weekend lineup for the 2023 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series....
RAGTIME: The Symphonic Concert & More Set for 2023 Tanglewood Summer Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 20, 2023
One of the country’s premier summer music festivals, Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937; events for the 85th season begin on Thursday, June 22....
2023 New England Music Hall Of Fame Inductee Composer Randy Edelman To Perform At Awards Ceremony
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 19, 2023
This year's inductee via The New England Music Hall of Fame world renowned Composer Randy Edelman will be a featured performer in celebrating the extravaganza. ...
Pilgrim Festival Singers Presents AMERICAN VOICES Summer Concert Series
by A.A. Cristi - June 07, 2023
Pilgrim Festival Singers, a select vocal ensemble of Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), presents its four-concert summer series, “American Voices – Celebrating our American Heritage,” on Saturday, June 10, 4 pm, at First Trinitarian Church, 381 Country Way, Scituate; Sunday, June 11, 4 pm, at Fi...
Boston Baroque Releases Live Concert Recording Of Chevalier De Saint-Georges' Violin Concerto In D
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2023
Boston Baroque is ecstatic to release a live concert recording of the Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 1 by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The recording features GRAMMY-nominated concertmaster and soloist Christina Day Martinson in a stunning performance that The Boston Musical In...
Boston Landmarks Orchestra Announces Summer 2023 Performances
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2023
Boston Landmarks Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins, brings its annual summer series of free, live orchestral concerts to the iconic DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade, with a special focus on concerts in Dorchester, Roxbury, Hyde Square, and Chelsea....
New England Conservatory Announces New Staff Appointments To The Expanded Education Division
by Blair Ingenthron - May 27, 2023
New England Conservatory (NEC) announces two director-level staff appointments to the Expanded Education Division: Adam Calus as Director of the NEC Preparatory School (NEC Prep) and Cecilia Pinto as Director of Early Childhood Education....
Listen: Elizabeth Stanley, Nikki Renée Daniels, and Lead RAGTIME Symphonic Recording from Boston Pops
by Alan Henry - May 25, 2023
Recorded on Sunday, May 21st The Boston Pops performed a symphonic version of Ragtime, prepared by the original creators Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty, especially for the Pops....
Tanglewood Adds Jackson Browne to the 2023 Popular Artist Lineup
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2023
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced that Jackson Browne will be performing as part of the 2023 Tanglewood Popular Artist Series....
Boston Symphony Names Chad Smith as New President and CEO
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2023
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Chad Smith, one of the country’s leading orchestral music executives, as the institution's next President and Chief Executive Officer, effective early fall 2023....
Dorinda Medley to Join WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME! as Special Guest in June
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 04, 2023
Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced that The Real Housewives of New York City’s Dorinda Medley will be a Special Guest at NPR’s oddly informative news quiz program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 8:00 p.m....
Pianist Laszlo Gardony to Celebrate CLOSE CONNECTION In Marblehead & Plymouth
by Blair Ingenthron - April 27, 2023
Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Laszlo Gardony will celebrate his recent Sunnyside Records recording Close Connection with two Boston area album release concerts this spring....
BSO And Music Director Andris Nelsons To Return To Europe, August 25-September 8, For The First Time Since 2018
by A.A. Cristi - April 20, 2023
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will return to Europe for the first time since 2018, with a nine-city, 12-concert tour to major music capitals in England, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, and France. Anne-Sophie Mutter and Jean-Yves Thibaudet—two of th...
Changes In Latitudes, Jimmy Buffet Band To Play At Indian Ranch On June 3
by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2023
Changes In Latitudes, the premier Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show will help Indian Ranch in Webster, MA kick off summer a bit early with a show on Saturday, June 3, 2023. A portion of the ticket proceeds will support the Webster Lake Association. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, April 21 at 10:00 AM at ww...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Sets 2023-24 Season Featuring a World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 13, 2023
The 2023–24 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, October 5–May 4, has been programmed to offer the BSO’s most devoted audiences and newcomers alike an exciting and wide-ranging spectrum of musical styles and periods....
New England Premiere Of Gabriela Lena Frank's CONQUEST REQUIEM to be Presented at New England Conservatory
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 11, 2023
New England Conservatory (NEC) will return to Symphony Hall for the first time since 2018 in a wide-reaching program of orchestral and choral works....
New England Conservatory Welcomes Acclaimed Vocalist, Composer, Lyricist, Improviser And Educator Fay Victor For An April Residency
by A.A. Cristi - March 31, 2023
New England Conservatory's Contemporary Musical Arts program welcomes acclaimed composer Fay Victor for a residency capped by a concert. The Music of Fay Victor on Tuesday, April 11 features CMA students and faculty in collaboration with Victor, performing her works as well as original student compo...
NEC Jazz Orchestra Celebrates The Centennial Of Legendary Trumpeter, Composer And Arranger Thad Jones, April 20
by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2023
Pianist, composer and conductor Jim McNeely Pianist and composer Jim McNeely conducts the NEC Jazz Orchestra in a celebration of legendary trumpeter, composer and arranger Thad Jones, born 100 years ago on March 28, 1923. ...
Boston Baroque Sets 23-24 Season Featuring Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' Symphony No. 9, Handel's 'Messiah' & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 28, 2023
Boston Baroque will celebrate its 50th Year with a season led by founding Music Director Martin Pearlman....
Pilgrim Festival Chorus Presents Handel's ISRAEL IN EGYPT This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 20, 2023
Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), the region's principal community chorus, presents its spring season concert, “Israel in Egypt,” on Saturday, April 29, 7:30 pm, and Sunday, April 30, 4 pm, at St. Bonaventure Parish, 803 State Road, Plymouth. ...
Handel And Haydn Society And Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini Present Bach's Easter Oratorio
by A.A. Cristi - March 17, 2023
Esteemed Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini joins the Handel and Haydn Society for the award-winning organization's performances of Bach's Easter Oratorio. The Gramophone award winner and Grammy nominee will be front and center March 31 + April 2, 2023, at Symphony Hall in Boston. The concerts w...
New England Musicians Resource Fund Lends Support To Musicians Facing Eviction From Rehearsal Space
by Blair Ingenthron - March 11, 2023
The Los Angeles City Council honored Center Theatre Group on March 10, 2023 by proclaiming Wednesday, March 15, 2023 as “TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992” Day. Councilmembers Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren D. Price Jr., Heather Hutt, and Hugo Soto-Martinez presented the proclamation to Center Theatr...
Handel And Haydn Society's Emi Ferguson Performs First Solo With Mozart First Concerto
by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2023
The Handel and Haydn Society's principal flutist, Emi Ferguson, will make her solo debut with H+H in Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major. The performance will be part of a pair of H+H concerts March 17 + 19, 2023 at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. The concerts will show the brilliance o...
Boston Baroque Presents Gluck's IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 01, 2023
Boston Baroque's 50th Season concludes with the much-anticipated annual staged opera with performances of Gluck's rarely-heard Iphigénie en Tauride. Performances will take place on Thursday, April 20 at 8pm, Friday, April 21 at 8pm, and Sunday, April 23 at 3pm at GBH's Calderwood Studio in Brighton...
Thomas Adès and Earl Lee to Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts This Spring
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 01, 2023
BSO Artistic Partner from 2018 to 2021, composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adès returns to Symphony Hall to lead a program featuring the Inferno Suite and Paradiso from his recent composition The Dante Project, a three-part ballet score from 2021 based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epi...
Kendall Square Orchestra Presents Annual SYMPHONY FOR SCIENCE This June
by A.A. Cristi - February 28, 2023
The Kendall Square Orchestra will present its fourth annual Symphony for Science on Sunday June 4th at Symphony Hall in Boston. ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Two Programs at Carnegie Hall in 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 28, 2023
As part of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–24 season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform two programs on January 29 and 30, 2024, led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons....
Boston Pops & Keith Lockhart Announce 2023 Spring Pops Season At Symphony Hall, May 12- June 10
by A.A. Cristi - February 23, 2023
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra has announced their 2023 Spring Pops season, May 12–June 10, encompassing a celebratory spectrum of concerts and remarkable breadth of musical genres for which “America's Orchestra” is universally recognized. ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra To Perform Free BSO Neighborhood Concerts At UMass Lowell, February 28
by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2023
Building upon the success of the first free BSO Neighborhood Concert, held at Dorchester's Jeremiah E. Burke High School last November, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform the 2022–23 season's second free concert at UMass Lowell's Durgin Concert Hall (inside Durgin Hall), 35 Wilder Street, ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra to Present VOICES OF LOSS, RECKONING, AND HOPE Festival in March
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 09, 2023
Boston Symphony Orchestra will present VOICES OF LOSS, RECKONING, AND HOPE Festival March 3-18. ...
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