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An orange and turquoise collage of six Celebrity Series artists.
Simone Fowler: Rana; Kevin A. Richards: Bridges; Marco Borggreve: Ma; Emilio Madrid: O'Hara; James Hole: Lim; Marco Borggreve: Mäkelä
Artistic Director Nicole Taney talks with CRB's Brian McCreath about the newly announced season, which includes visits from three major orchestras, all-Bach programs from Yo-Yo Ma, Yunchan Lim, and others, and an opening night with mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges.
  • Spring flings with some classic looks, and a baby! All in this month's Instant Replay.
  • Broad, interconnected thematic programming drives the BSO’s just announced 2025-2026 season, including “E Pluribus Unum,” a kaleidoscopic exploration of American works, “Where Words End: Music and the Natural World,” and “Faith in Our Time,” as well as a celebration of Symphony Hall's 125th birthday.
  • Artists across the pop music spectrum, from Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens to Solange Knowles and RZA, have made recent forays into music for ballet. Why now, and what’s changed about their music to accommodate the medium?
  • Figure skating is a sport with deep ties to classical music. Here's what you'll hear at this year's ISU World Figure Skating Championships, taking place in Boston, MA.
  • Celebrating 30 years as the conductor of the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart tells the stories behind his recordings with the Pops, from tributes to Glenn Miller and Richard Rodgers to the inimitable film scores of John Williams!
  • On The Bach Hour, a legendary instrument at Schlosskirche Altenburg - played when it was new by the composer himself - transmits an astonishing range of sonic color in the Passacaglia in C minor and Cantata 146.
  • On WCRB In Concert with the Radius Ensemble, selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Hilary Tann, and Jennifer Higdon embody and celebrate the shimmering natural world.
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