The latter was the feast day of the choir’s namesake, the Roman Catholic patron saint of music. As it happens, she is ...

Celebrating a birthday around the holidays can be a tricky proposition. Fortunately, the first concert of Boston Cecilia’s 150th anniversary season managed to avoid being overshadowed by the impending ...

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...

In classical music these days, it seems the only thing that separates the top-flight professional groups from youth ensembles is, well, youth. Training is now so effective that many young musicians ...

While the liturgical calendar is winding its way through the later weeks of Ordinary Time, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus peeked ahead a couple months to Advent on Friday night at ...

“When good Americans die,” Oscar Wilde said, “they go to Paris.” Sometimes, though, Paris comes to America. So it happened that the Orchestre National de France found itself at Mechanics Hall in ...

Music by Mahler, Loeffler, Koechlin, Saint-Saëns and Beach. Boston Symphony Chamber Players/Earl Lee. October 5. The upcoming 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence promises plenty of ...

To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...

Some ballets, like The Rite of Spring, turn up on concert programs so frequently that it can be hard to imagine experiencing them in a theater. Gabriela Ortiz seems to have taken that reality to heart ...

The New England Philharmonic offered a typically bracing program on the theme of New England at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center on Sunday afternoon. In its exploration of local landscapes ...