The company’s current season features an array of engaging mixed bills, including two world premieres: Justin Peck’s ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...

The sale of the 300-year-old violin, a "rare gem," raised money for student scholarships at the New England Conservatory.

The money from the sale of the violin, which was once owned by the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim, will benefit a ...

A Stradivarius violin has sold for 11.25 million US dollars (£9 million), with the auction house claiming it is one of the ...

BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

I realised that none of the music from the 1790s – a period when gothic was phenomenally popular – was intended to scare. On the contrary, it was called upon to provide relief from the scare. In late ...

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It was a name that had briefly meant something in the 19th-century musical world — at least ... to do when Dédé’s manuscript calls for an instrument that modern orchestras no longer use ...

Before a concert by the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra in Lewiston on Jan. 18, children got to try their hand at a variety of musical instruments and to meet some of the orchestra’s musicians.