The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the Viano Quartet performing works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Webern, and Shostakovich 3 p.m. November 2 at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. celebrityseries.org ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...

What is an encore supposed to do? Delight, entrance, entertain? Send an audience out into the night with smiles on their faces? Or should it be more substantial and offer a serious musical statement?

“I have thought for a long time of giving up these nonsensical terms allegro, andante, adagio, presto,” Beethoven wrote in 1817. “And Malzel’s metronome gives us the best opportunity to do so.” Not ...

Wit, Nietzsche once offered, is the epitaph of an emotion. Who would have guessed that the quip, from a discussion of morality in Beyond Good and Evil, might help illuminate a Beethoven string quartet ...

Nothing says “Happy 125 th Birthday” like a gentle facelift. Symphony Hall, which celebrates its quasquicentennial on October 15, received the former over the summer. The walls have been repainted, ...