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Fresh from its two Grammy Award wins last February, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has added another CD to its extensive discography: recent Boston Symphony Orchestra commissions of works by ...
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 in April. (Courtesy Robert Torres) When there’s a final reckoning of Andris Nelsons’ tenure ...
In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews three new releases by the Boston Symphony Orchestra ...
Symphony orchestras from Norfolk to Amsterdam are beginning to issue classical recordings on their own labels. With the vanishing of record companies and big box record outlets, the trend marks a n… ...
WBUR's Andrea Shea is in Japan with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week. This is the first time the BSO has toured Japan with a music director since 1999, when it visited with former music ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra chief Gail Samuel explores how Tanglewood can be welcoming for everyone Last year, she became the first woman to lead the BSO. This year, she's set her sights on enhancing ...
Unlike the Mozart, Nelsons and the orchestra already have an extensive history with “An Alpine Symphony,” a roughly 50-minute tone poem depicting a daylong climb up and down a mountain. They ...
SYMPHONY HALL. AND GERSHWIN’S RHAPSODY IN BLUE, AS PLAYED BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. AND BOSTON MAYOR MICHELLE WU. GROWING UP PLAYING PIANO AND ALL THOSE HOURS OF SCALES AND PRACTICING, I ...
The fifth iteration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Concert for the City,” held on Sept. 21 at the Symphony Hall, had a large task at hand.