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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Broad, interconnected thematic programming drives the BSO’s just announced 2025-2026 season, including “E Pluribus Unum,” a kaleidoscopic exploration of American works, “Where Words End: Music and the Natural World,” and “Faith in Our Time,” as well as a celebration of Symphony Hall's 125th birthday.
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Artists across the pop music spectrum, from Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens to Solange Knowles and RZA, have made recent forays into music for ballet. Why now, and what’s changed about their music to accommodate the medium?
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Figure skating is a sport with deep ties to classical music. Here's what you'll hear at this year's ISU World Figure Skating Championships, taking place in Boston, MA.
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Spring has sprung, and with it comes a riot of fiddle, a lo-fi re-imagining, and at least two GRAMMY Awards in the Instant Replay.
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On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's Cantata 182, and Pieter Wispelwey performs the Suite No. 5 for solo cello.
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On WCRB In Concert with Celebrity Series of Boston, Egyptian Australian musicians Joseph and James Tawadros join the ACO for an exhilarating reimagining of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons."
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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.
From NPR Music
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Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral's longest-serving organist. Just days before the church's gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
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NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.
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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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