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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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A musical melange as varied as the leaves I still need to rake off the lawn, just for you in this month's Instant Replay. -
Matthew Guard, Artistic Director of the Boston-based vocal ensemble, talks about their new album, "Clear Voices in the Dark," the monumental challenge of recording Poulenc's "Figure Humaine," and music as a human reaction to violence. -
One of the great things about the Bard is how adaptable his plays are. There are endless ways to interpret them — on stage and on screen, sure, but also in music! -
The Boston Symphony's new composer chair talks about his roots in the churches of his family, his hopes and plans with the BSO, and the deep meanings of his music on a new recording called "Four Symphonic Works."
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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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British composer Martin Phipps discusses how he used an 1808 French piano that once belonged to Napoleon in the score for Ridley Scott's biopic of the one-time emperor. -
One hundred years after her birth, Maria Callas still commands attention in the world of opera, which she forever altered with her singular, searing performances.
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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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