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  • Samy Rachid wears a navy suit and stands against a black background, smiling at the camera. Olivier Latry wears a white button down and holds a gray suit jacket over one shoulder. He stands outside with trees behind him, and he smiles softly at the camera.
    Rachid Conducts Berlioz, Gandolfi, and Saint-Saëns at Symphony Hall
    In an encore broadcast, Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid makes his BSO subscription debut conducting Berlioz’s “Waverley” Overture and two pieces for organ and orchestra, featuring Olivier Latry: Michael Gandolfi’s “Ascending Light” and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony.
  • Xian Zhang wears a navy suit and stands in profile with her arms folded. She looks down and laughs, twisting a piece of her short hair between her fingers. Jonathan Biss wears a gray sweater and black-rimmed glasses. He holds his hands like he's mid-clap, and he looks at the camera with a soft smile.
    Conductor Xian Zhang, the BSO, and Pianist Jonathan Biss
    In an encore broadcast, Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading Chen Yi’s “Landscape Impression” and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, and Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s lyrical and powerful Piano Concerto, on demand.
  • An exterior perspective on Seiji Ozawa Hall at dusk, with luminous light glowing from inside and with an audience on the lawn outside.
    Blog
    The Tanglewood Music Center in 2025, with Director Ed Gazouleas
    The former Boston Symphony violist and current Director of the TMC describes the growing strengths of the legendary summer academy in the Berkshires and its most significant challenges and opportunities.
  • Cody Fry wears a velvet green suit and stands in an ornate mansion. He looks at the camera with a subtle smolder.
    Cody Fry, with the Boston Pops!
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Pops, hear the songs of a masterful storyteller cast in lush and cinematic orchestrations as Fry makes his debut with the Pops. The first half of the concert features the winners of the Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition.
  • All four men wear dark jeans and turtlenecks. They smile and laugh together on a street in New York City, all while carrying their instruments.
    Newport Classical Presents the Isidore String Quartet
    On WCRB In Concert, the ISQ, founded in 2019 at the Juilliard School, performs the music of Haydn and Mendelssohn at The Breakers Mansion in Newport, RI.
  • Erin Morley wears soft pink lipstick and blush, and is surrounded by blossoms of a similar hue. She looks at the camera and smiles softly.
    Erin Morley's Boston Baroque Debut
    On WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque, the renowned coloratura soprano performs concert arias by Mozart, bookended by Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2.
  • From left to right: ACO Director and violinist Richard Tognetti, and oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros.
    "The Four Seasons," Reimagined with the Australian Chamber Orchestra
    On WCRB In Concert with Celebrity Series of Boston, Egyptian Australian musicians Joseph and James Tawadros join the ACO for an exhilarating reimagining of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons."
  • Frank Peter Zimmerman holds his violin close to him and glances to the left of frame. He wears a silky black concert shirt. He has dark hair and light blue eyes.
    Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky.
  • Clockwise from left: Dima Slobodeniouk, Jack Swanson, Avery Amereau, Morris Robinson, and Erin Morley
    Mozart’s Requiem with Dima Slobodeniouk and the BSO
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists.
  • The perspective of this photo is from the risers on stage. You see what the H+H Chorus members see: other singers surround you with black binders full of sheet music, Harry Christophers conducts you from an otherwise empty stage, and a sea of audience members stretch back into the darkness of Symphony Hall. This concert appears to be completely sold out.
    Hildegard, Aleotti, Haydn, and Mozart, with H+H
    On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, mystically beautiful works by Hildegard von Bingen and Raffaela Aleotti are framed by Haydn's Symphony No. 49 and Mozart's "Coronation" Mass.