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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In celebration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 96th birthday, pianist Lara Downes examines how musicians have followed in his footsteps, and faced the cost of taking a stand.
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The concert series is a response to the uncovering of information connecting Handel to the slave trade.
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In his first season as the BSO's Concertmaster, Nathan Cole talks with CRB's Brian McCreath about his background, the distinctive sound worlds different orchestras produce, and the challenges and rewards of his position.
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Pearlman reflects on his final season leading Boston Baroque.
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See and hear a performance of Handel's masterpiece by the Handel and Haydn Society, produced at GBH.Boston's Handel and Haydn Society hasn't missed a…
From NPR Music
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The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.
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The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.
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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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