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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The "Fab Four" via South Korea, the North Seas meet the Vineyard, and a Pterodactyl scream . . . yes, we're ready for what fall may bring.
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Composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, and creative chair of the Oregon Symphony Gabriel Kahane confronts uncomfortable truths about the housing crisis in America with his witty, eclectic, dynamic, and genre-defying oratorio “emergency shelter intake form,” performed by the Oregon Symphony.
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Whether it's been a "wistful" summer, or a "high-energy" one, or even a "big ideas" kind of summer, we've got just the right soundtrack for you.
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What would the Olympics be without the best of the best athletes... and classical composers?
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On The Bach Hour, Helmut Rilling conducts the composer's Cantata No. 84 and selections from the Mass in B minor, and guitarist Jason Vieaux and German Brass each offer distinctive interpretations in two of Bach's instrumental works.
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On The Bach Hour, one of the composer's frothier musical creations tells the story of a father, his daughter, and a hot caffeinated beverage that causes a minor rift in family relations.
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On The Bach Hour, the Finnish conductor leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Arnold Schoenberg's lush orchestration of the "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue, and Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Cantata 73.
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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