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With flair and fanfare, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society celebrated its bicentennial on November 21st with a historic concert at King's Chapel. The program featured the same music from the group's inaugural performance at the church on Christmas Day in 1815. In a press
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NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine, the former Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of the season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run that lifted the company to a golden era but became increasingly problematic as
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As an internationally acclaimed performer, recording artist, and conservatory piano chair, Bruce Brubaker is uniquely positioned to identify the challenges of promoting classical music, especially among young people. He posits that "the walls are coming down" in a positive way between different genres, with contemporary trends such as
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BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra is rhapsodizing over winning the Grammy award for best orchestral performance Monday. The symphony and musical director Andris Nelsons won the orchestral performance prize for "Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow," which features Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and the Passacaglia from
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New music is, by definition, revolutionary. But it also follows a well-established tradition of building creatively on the works of past composers. In celebration of both innovation and tradition, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) commissions, performs, and records new concert music for Boston audiences. This year marks BMOP's
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