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Review: MSO Pops Movie Music
Review

MSO Pops Movie Music

Guest Pops conductor Jack Everly focuses on big scores for big films in a well-prepared, well-performed concert.

This Week at MSO Pops: Hooray for Hollywood
This Week at MSO Pops

Hooray for Hollywood

The people and the story behind Hooray for Hollywood, the national anthem of the movie business.

Review: Ohlsson’s great Chopin at the MSO
Review

Ohlsson’s great Chopin at the MSO

De Waart makes sense of Elgar's sprawling Symphony No. 1 and has fun with a rarely heard Berlioz overture.

MSO extends de Waart’s contract five years

MSO extends de Waart’s contract five years

Runaway artistic and box office success leads to long-term agreement with music director Edo de Wart.

This Week at the MSO: Brush Up Your Berlioz
This Week at the MSO

Brush Up Your Berlioz

The MSO will play the Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Berlioz's opera after Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare loomed large in the composer's life.

Review: Frankly Music and the Lipinski Stradivarius
Review

Frankly Music and the Lipinski Stradivarius

Frank Almond brings out the best in a great violin.

Review: More Amazement from Present Music
Review

More Amazement from Present Music

Kevin Stalheim's group plays Schoenberg, John Adams, Raymond Scott's crazy stuff from mid-century and Mason Bates' electronica crossover.

Present Music connects cartoons to the avant-garde

Present Music connects cartoons to the avant-garde

John Adams, Schoenberg, Raymond Scott, Warner Brothers cartoons, Mason Bates connected? Oh yes, they are.

PODCAST: Hal Rammel
PODCAST

Hal Rammel

When Hal Rammel began experimenting with music, he wound up reinventing the wheel (among other things).

We Six bops it Monk-style

We Six bops it Monk-style

Thelonious Monk's modern jazz inspires the Conservatory's We Six final 2010 concert. [Thursday update: Concert is SOLD OUT.]

Review: A Wiz made for kids glitters at First Stage
Review

A Wiz made for kids glitters at First Stage

First Stage has adapted the 1975 Broadway version of The Wizard of Oz.

Review: Caravan Ensemble at Early Music Now
Review

Caravan Ensemble at Early Music Now

As the Jewish southern diaspora reached from Persia to Spain, it accreted many musical traditions into its own.