Verdi was an opera composer at his core and his Messa da Requiem exemplifies what happens when theatrical sensibilities meet ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a ...

Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston ...

Boston Classical Review is looking for concert reviewers based in the Boston area. Solid knowledge of classical repertory is required as well as excellent writing skills. Classical reviewing and/or ...

“When good Americans die,” Oscar Wilde said, “they go to Paris.” Sometimes, though, Paris comes to America. So it happened that the Orchestre National de France found itself at Mechanics Hall in ...

What’s the deal with Dmitri Shostakovich and E-flat major? Traditionally, that key is employed to represent grandeur, nobility, heroism—think Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 or Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.

“Everyone should remember,” an anonymous text under the 15 th-century Totentanz frieze in Lübeck’s Marienkirche once warned, “that nobody can live forever.” Neither do buildings or artworks: the poem ...