For better or worse, the classical music industry loves anniversaries. This year offered several but, for the most part, ...

And as we know from the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s plans for January ... giving the piece Kay considered his best its first full performance since its premiere (June 20).

In 1881, Henry Lee Higginson, the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote of his wish to present in Boston "concerts of a lighter kind of music." The first Boston Pops concert in 1885 ...

Beethoven's song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (“To the distant beloved”), composed a few years after his Symphony No. 7 ... 135, with the renowned Boston-based Lydian String Quartet (Jan ...

Even if you're not a classical music aficionado, you can't miss attending one of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's world-renowned performances at Symphony Hall. The BSO began performing in 1881.

From Dec. 5 to Dec. 24, Boston ... the orchestra and chorus showed off their technical prowess and versatility as they played and sang about each day in the melody of a different song, from ...

Music Director Francisco Noya will lead the Boston ... performed by the orchestra on that first concert. We will revisit Schubert on this concert with his Unfinished Symphony, a piece ...