Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers loosely built around movements from Benjamin Britten ...

Boston Camerata proved that medieval music can resonate as much as holiday music of today in a well-attended performance on ...

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” How welcome when a concert program does the same. Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers ...

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 ...

“Progress depends above all on the temper of the nation,” Anthony Eden told the House of Commons in 1938. “And that temper must find expression in a firm spirit.” The former foreign secretary and ...

Sometimes, despite its imposing grandeur and marvelous acoustic, Symphony Hall can feel like an extension of one’s living room. On Friday, it radiated homey vibes. Part of this owed to the Boston ...

Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, and in various ways, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons demonstrated in their traversal of works by Mozart and ...