By adamg - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 10:30pm

Our own Ron Newman took in the BSO's free Concert for the City, which featured Mayor Wu performing a piano solo of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." Before the main event, the Pops Gospel Choir performed.

By adamg - Fri, 02/09/2024 - 10:25am

Associated Press reports the passing of Seiji Ozawa at his Tokyo home. Ozawa led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly 30 years.

By adamg - Thu, 10/27/2022 - 12:58pm

The Dig sets the Wayback Machine to the 1950s and details how the CIA came to pay for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to tour Europe. Yes, the Cold War was involved.

By adamg - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 10:20am

Layoff notices went out yesterday, according to one of the workers, Tammy Lynch, who has started a GoFundMe page to help her colleagues.

Many of those laid off have had very little time and ability to develop any savings, and they face uncertain futures, particularly regarding health insurance.

By adamg - Thu, 04/30/2020 - 10:33pm

Joyce Kulhawik reports the details of the BSO's 2020/2021 season, which is now scheduled to open on Sept. 16.

By adamg - Thu, 03/12/2020 - 3:09pm

Peter Wilson reports the BSO is cancelling all performances through March 28, at both Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood because, well, you can guess.

By adamg - Fri, 02/07/2020 - 11:22am

The Boston Music Intelligencer reports that the BSO, which had a planned Asian tour canceled over coronavirus fears, will instead play a series of free concerts in the Boston area - with one trip out to Tanglewood. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 01/30/2020 - 2:02pm

WBZ reports, does not say if the BSO requires its musicians to get flu shots.

By adamg - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 5:48pm

If you happen to be downtown or in the Back Bay or the Fenway this evening and wonder about the Major Motorcade and all the police and stuff, it's because German Präsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier is Hubbing it to conclude "the official end of Wunderbar Together, the Year of German-America Friendship," with a joint concert by the BSO and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester tonight. Read more.

By bsopress - Tue, 04/23/2019 - 2:07pm
Opening Night of the 2019 Boston Pops spring season—Wednesday, May 8—heralds the much-anticipated Boston Pops return of Bernadette Peters, dynamic star of stage and screen, and is the first of ten eclectic programs that Keith Lockhart will lead from th
By adamg - Thu, 10/25/2018 - 9:39am

Compare to this 2013 music-off: Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 12/17/2017 - 12:33pm

A disgusted South End citizen files a complaint about people heading to BSO concerts who park on neighborhood streets and consider their $40 non-resident tickets a decent price for parking: Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 08/08/2015 - 11:22pm

Stevil took in the Tanglewood 75th-anniversary simulcast in Copley Square tonight.

the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - Sun, 09/28/2014 - 1:06pm

The BSO posted these clips from Andris Nelsons's debut as its music director.

By adamg - Sun, 11/03/2013 - 6:58pm

A California photographer who claims the BSO owes him lots of money for the photographs it used for some Boston Pops concerts last year is, of course, suing.

By adamg - Sat, 01/08/2011 - 12:45pm

Mike Ball reviews the BSO's opening performance of Stravinsky and Bartok, conducted by a chair-bound James Levine:

By adamg - Mon, 06/14/2010 - 12:35pm

Joel Brown reports.

By adamg - Thu, 12/10/2009 - 6:52pm

Boston Music Intelligencer reports.

By adamg - Tue, 09/29/2009 - 1:39pm

Joel Brown reports on the BSO conductor's latest medical issue.