Imagine what it would feel like to be surrounded by the warm glint of thousands of candles as your favorite songs are played in a classical form that softly fills the architecture of a venue. Such a ...

Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...

The new year’s highlights include the premiere of Anthony Davis’ children’s opera, soprano Susan Narucki, a Bach choral mass ...

Cannons, fireworks, trumpets, and drums – with the whole orchestra to play with, classical music is the perfect accompaniment ...

Find out why a live classical concert changes you completely. Your brain, body, and emotions react differently than you ever ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

Certain pieces of classical music have legions of fans far beyond the concert hall. Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” has been in many movies, from “Apocalypse Now” to “The Blues Brothers.” If ...

For classical music lovers, August — not dreary February — can feel like the longest month of the year. It’s midway between the end of the 2023-24 performing season and the beginning of the next one.

Despite grant withdrawals, local music-presenting groups surged ahead with new seasons, new work and new partnerships.