Tonight at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to Symphony Hall for an all Shostakovich program, kicking off the Boston Symphony Orchestra's "Decoding Shostakovich" series.
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Pianist Sharon Su fell in love with a Florence Price composition, and then received an error-riddled version of the sheet music.
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Our April playlist showers us with jazz, post-punk, glam rock, and K-pop, then some fresh classical favorites and old standbys bring it all home.
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The words of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and theoretical physicist Richard Feynman introduce a secular twist to the choral mass format in David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet Mass, brought to life by the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing.
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Later this month, Boston Baroque, led by Martin Pearlman, will present Mozart’s incredible "Don Giovanni" in a fully staged production. In anticipation of the performances, General Manager of GBH Music and author of the novel "Imagining Don Giovanni" Anthony Rudel takes a closer look at the opera’s characters and the men who created them.
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On The Bach Hour, the Los Angeles-based violinist performs both parts - each on a different Stradivarius instrument - of one of the composer’s most dramatic concertos.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky.
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On The Bach Hour, organist Balint Karosi joins host Brian McCreath with rich context for his performance of the composer's magisterial collection called Clavierübung, Part III.
From NPR Music
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When he takes over, in the fall of 2027, he will be the youngest music director in the orchestra's 133-year history.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Grammy-winning baritone Will Liverman about his latest album — Show Me The Way — honoring women in classical music, past and present.
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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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