An earworm, some hype, a buttery-smooth cover, and more, in April's Instant Replay.

In its 2026-2027 concert season, the newly rebranded Vivo Performing Arts offers Massachusetts audiences over 80 classical music, jazz, and dance performances, while also presenting innovative and genre-defying acts and introducing new local initiatives in Roxbury and beyond.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced details of its 2026-2027 season, marked by programs focused on singular composers and themes, a dynamic Artist in Residence, and significant world and U.S. premieres.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the genre-defying string trio Time for Three talk about their new album "Emily — No Prisoner Be," the joys of working with composer Kevin Puts, and the responsibility of bringing Emily Dickinson to a new generation.

Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in John Adams’ “Harmonium” and, with four stellar soloists, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy.”

On WCRB In Concert with BEMF, Italian brothers Enrico and Marcello Gatti perform selections from Telemann’s Paris quartets, and the BEMF Orchestra performs Handel’s "Water Music" and Telemann’s own aquatic suite "Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth."

In his first appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2015, pianist Evgeny Kissin plays piano concertos by Scriabin and Mozart, and Andrey Boreyko conducts works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov.

The song, penned before American Independence by a slave trader turned abolitionist, has remained a source of comfort, inspiration and redemption.

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.