Devotees of chamber music gathered at Gore Place in Waltham on Sunday in a room that was built for such a concert to witness ...
Kent Nagano and the BSO premiere Tod Machover’s already and not yet at Symphony Hall October 22–24, with a live AI system from the MIT Media Lab playing alongside the orchestra. What is the AI doing, ...
Caroline Shaw, violin and voice, and Andrew Yee, cello, explored “...intersections between sound, composition, and physical landscapes” in “ArtsThursday.” ...
This past January at the Church of the Covenant, Tianyi Timothy Ren led the Helix Ensemble in its debut with two pieces for string orchestra, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Strauss’s Metamorphosen.
Steinberg himself arranged Shostakovich’s 1951 Fugue in E-flat minor, Op. 87, No. 14, for strings, with the specific intent of preparing us for Shostakovich’s 1974 String Quartet No. 15 by acclimating ...
Musicologist and composer Mark DeVoto is an expert in early 20th-century music. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967), he is professor emeritus of music at Tufts ...
I play the piano, which makes me a lucky amateur in one way and an unlucky one in another. Lucky, because there’s more solo piano music than anyone could get through in a lifetime. Unlucky, because it ...
In 1979, Benjamin Zander founded the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, debuting with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. In 2012, Zander ...
Cohen composed Stone and Earth for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra 1978, during his first year of teaching at MIT, and debued there that year. The text, by the 17 th-century poet Henry Vaughan, is ...