Shakespeare, for once, had it backwards: better three hours too soon, his Master Ford tells us, than one minute too late. For their first appearance in Boston since October 2001, the adage might be ...

Bartolomeo Montalbano’s Sinfonia Quarta “Geloso” immediately set the tone for the evening. Flexible phrasing and sensitive ...

Talk about a strong finish: while the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s spring season runs through May, the ensemble’s two-month streak of concerts showcasing major new and unfamiliar repertoire that began ...

While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work that, despite its challenges and headiness, is vivid and—in the best ...

“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...

Artistic inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Take Gabriella Smith’s Bioluminescence Chaconne, which owes its genesis to a snorkeling excursion the composer took as part of a marine ...

No one ever accused Gustav Mahler of taking the easy route. Even so, the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 3 develops a programmatic concept that stretches the genre almost to its breaking point.