"Music is the coordination between Man and Time." – Igor Stravinsky

This month, a mix of music just as eclectic as holiday guests, yet each one loved in its own way.

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" ~Albert Einstein

This week, in a special online edition of our weekly email newsletter, stay warm with music for a bright, festive holiday season.

The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.

The composer of Breaking the Waves speaks candidly about equity in her field, the importance of role models and the unglamorous side of writing music every day.

On The Bach Hour, Olivier Latry talks about the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, where he's been an organist since 1985, and performs Bach's music in one of the last recordings made before the fire.

On The Bach Hour, the Finnish conductor leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Arnold Schoenberg's lush orchestration of the "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue, and Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Cantata 73.

Karina Canellakis takes up her baton at Symphony Hall for the very first time in a folk-inspired Boston Symphony program that features Dvořák’s "The Wood Dove" and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Nicola Benedetti makes her BSO debut with Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2, on demand.