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 ...

A Harvard’s presidential initiative promoting free access to the arts, “ArtsThursday,” continued with Caroline Shaw, violin and voice, and Andrew Yee, cello, who performed “a curated selection of ...

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, ...

Jeffrey Gantz has a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. He worked at the Boston Phoenix for 33 years, 20 of them as arts editor.

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 ...

As location is to real estate, so provenance is to objects. Think Einstein’s violin, “no Stradivarius” according to Strings Magazine, which sold at auction in 2018 for $516,500. But what if you ...

The Handel & Haydn Society coupled the Requiem Mass settings of Michael Haydn (1737-1806), MH 155 with Mozart’s K. 626 at Symphony Hall last weekend to open its 210 th season. Michael Haydn’s music ...

The Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) opened its 44 th season Sunday at Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge on Sunday. Three small ensembles, comprising five players in total, ...

Acronym, which describes itself as a “17 th-century string band,” created this concert in correspondence with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” ...