Tonight at 7:00pm, celebrate Keith Lockhart's 30 years with the Boston Pops and hear the stories behind some of their most beloved recordings, from tributes to Glenn Miller and Richard Rodgers, to the inimitable film scores of John Williams!
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Spring flings with some classic looks, and a baby! All in this month's Instant Replay.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's Cantata 182, and Pieter Wispelwey performs the Suite No. 5 for solo cello.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to Symphony Hall for an all Shostakovich program, kicking off the Boston Symphony Orchestra's "Decoding Shostakovich" series.
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On WCRB In Concert with GBH Music, the Norwegian violinist takes listeners on an extraordinary sonic journey to her homeland while exploring themes of environmentalism, climate change, and our connection to nature.
From NPR Music
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French violinist and social media influencer Esther Abrami releases her new album, Women, featuring music by female composers in a bid to redress historic biases.
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As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.
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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.
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