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In Final Season as Boston Baroque's Conductor, Martin Pearlman Still Finds Awe in Handel

Pearlman reflects on his final season leading Boston Baroque.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir begins her composing process by drawing shapes and writing words to help store musical information. Her scores themselves are finely detailed.

Structural integrity: Anna Thorvaldsdottir's rigorous, regenerative music

The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.

Antonin Dvorak predicted that American classical music would draw from African American traditions. A new article wonders why American classical music has remained so white.

Why Is American Classical Music So White?

Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn't. And one historian believes we're worse off because of it.

Guerrero Conducts Duruflé, Walton, and Grime

Saturday, October 10, 20208:00 PMGiancarlo Guerrero leads the BSO in Helen Grime's Limina, Walton's Cello Concerto with soloist Johannes Moser, and…

Clockwise from upper left: Andris Nelsons leads the BSO; Beethoven's name above the Symphony Hall proscenium; Hannah Kendall; the BSO performing at Symphony Hall

The BSO and "The Spirit of Beethoven"

Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons describes the three online performances he conducts, each of them featuring Beethoven symphonies,…

The tumultuous Detroit summer of 1967 inspired a new work by composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will premiere it in March.

First Impressions: A Guide To New Music In The New Season

From operas about Steve Jobs and Alice in Wonderland to an orchestral evocation of Detroit and a new concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, the new concert season is flush with premieres.

Composer Julius Eastman's music is slowly moving from neglected to championed.

Julius Eastman, A Misunderstood Composer, Returns To The Light

A visionary who died young and alone in 1990, Eastman is making a slow but richly deserved comeback thanks to a curious younger generation. A new interpretation of his 1974 work Femenine is out now.

A concert audience of houseplants? A new kids' book tells the surprisingly true tale

The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.

Jessie Montgomery's new work <em>Hymn for Everyone</em> receives its world premiere with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 28.

Can classical music really be inclusive? Composer Jessie Montgomery thinks so

With orchestras clamoring for her work, the rising artist feels a responsibility and opportunity to help reframe classical music and the institutions that present it.

Thanksgiving with A Far Cry

Sunday, November 29, 20207:00 PMOn WCRB In Concert with A Far Cry, WCRB's Ron Della Chiesa is joined by violinist Jae Cosmos Lee and violist Jason Fisher…

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