The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, will present two nights of classical music featuring guest soloists Himari and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall in April 2027.

The Bedford Reader” is a widely used composition book that has included everything from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to the classic Shirley Jackson story ...

Nilo Cruz is, first and foremost, a poet. Though he rose to prominence as a playwright when he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play “Anna in the Tropics,” a play commissioned by Miami’s ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Sixteen years after her tenure as the orchestra’s Assistant and then Associate Conductor ended, Xian Zhang returned to the New York Philharmonic to lead a diverse program pairing two 19th-century ...

The LA Phil today confirmed program details for the first program of its 2025/26 Body and Sound festival—Prometheus with Esa-Pekka Salonen, from January 9–11, 2026 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Salonen ...

It’s this latter element that attracts writer and director Lotfy Nathan in “The Carpenter’s Son.” The filmmaker draws on his own background in the Coptic Orthodox“Christi”n faith film’sis mood-heavy ...

Aside from his Valse Triste and his ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius’ most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela ...

From Sept. 25 to 27, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a concert featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Symphony No. 41 in C,” more commonly known as the “Jupiter Symphony,” and Richard Strauss’ ...

At first glance, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first subscription program of the season didn’t seem like anything to exclaim over. Music director Andris Nelsons was on the podium, as he often is at ...