In its season finale Friday night, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presented the young Arrow Quartet in an illuminating ...

But the final program of Boston Cecilia’s 150 th  season hit the mark. Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, the concert also recalled some of what has made this group so significant to the ...

But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated ...

Predictably, its most familiar items came from the pen of Johann Sebastian Bach: the Sinfonia from the Cantata BWV 156 (“Ich ...

Anniversaries can be tricky to get right, for institutions as much as individuals. But the final program of Boston Cecilia’s 150 th season hit the mark. Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Genius, Edison told us, is mostly the result of hard work. Too much of it, though, can lead to deleterious ends: as Jan Swafford’s recent biography convincingly argues, overwork played an outsized ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...

Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII was presented in the original five-act version Saturday night by Odyssey Opera. Painting: Hans Holbein, 1540. Henry VIII was the very model of a ruthless tyrant. Yet in Camille ...

A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.