Italian Baroque instrumental music is much more than Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. This week’s Full Rotation is "Flights of Fancy," a new collection of chamber music that captures the remarkable diversity and sometimes outlandish color of this era in music.
Today, Q2 offers 24 straight hours of music composed by the 30 remaining Project 440 artists. With the field about to be narrowed for a second time, it's an opportunity to hear pieces -- including broadcast premieres -- from composers shaping the canon of tomorrow.
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This week's Young Artists Showcase, recorded live at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, includes a glamorous young violinist and a brass quintet named after the bus line on Manhattan's Riverside Drive.
The Brentano String Quartet, one of today's leading chamber ensembles, is the featured guest in an evening devoted to composer Chou Wen-chung in the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space on September 20. Q2 host Nadia Sirota and Mr. Chou are also joined by pianist Jenny Lin and flutist Claire Chase.
At this time of year, box offices at most concert halls, opera houses and recital venues in town are opening their registers to sell subscriptions. Here are the Top 5 @ 105 themed series and subscriptions of the 2010-11 season.
Symphony Hall is focusing on orchestral works that rely solely on the strings as part of ViolinFest. In honor of Antonín Dvořák's birthday today, we're featuring his Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22.
Sir Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey are among the recipients.
President Obama will be presenting a new $50 billion proposal for infrastructure investments at a speech in Wisconsin.
