What makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating music and evaluating performances, this question feels urgent. A machine can ...

Chaerin KimWhat makes a musical performance meaningful? As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating ...

Director Patricia Racette guided the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with a ...

To start what will be their final season, Zander and the BPYO brought the Overture to Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, ...

The youthful, eclectic, avant guard chamber troupe Poiesis Quartet made its Boston debut Sunday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Calderwood Hall. Poiesis is the ancient Greek term ποιεῖν, which means ...

A concert entirely of music by a little-known historic composer is a bold undertaking, and Sarah Ioannides (Director of ...

After 13 years of focusing on its namesake, with occasional glimpses of other English composers, the Henry Purcell Society of ...

Lisbon is perhaps not the first name to enter one’s mind in cataloguing chief European musical cities. Nevertheless, it boasts a somewhat hidden secret asset that we happened upon during a recent trip ...

Guest conductor Kent Nagano bound together this weekend’s Boston Symphony Orchestra program. The bill closes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the “Reformation.” That’s preceded by the US premiere of ...

Jeffrey Gantz has a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. He worked at the Boston Phoenix for 33 years, 20 of them as arts editor.

Thursday’s BSO concert opened with Toru Takemitsu’s, a perfect vehicle to reveal the elegant conducting of guest conductor Nodoka Okisawa. Harmony and flow, rather than textural or melodic contrast, ...

Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 with the BSO (Michael J. Lutch photo) Andris Nelsons and the BSO adventured their latest traversals of the Shostakovich oeuvre with Thursday’s ...