Completed in 1896, the sprawling, six-movement score is the composer’s longest and perhaps most audacious musical undertaking, with a Dante-esque program that traces a course from the depths of the ...

Artistic inspiration can come from the most unexpected places.

The occasion was the final installment of the BSO’s month-long “E Pluribus Unum” festival. Though its offerings have been haphazard and hardly comprehensive, the jubilee has launched the orchestra and ...

Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...

Fitchburg, Massachusetts doesn’t loom large in the annals of music history. But the town in the Commonwealth’s north-central region has at least one claim to fame: it witnessed the first Boston ...