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Former Boston Symphony CEO Mark Volpe cites changing audience expectations focusing on "total experiences."

Musicians and orchestra executives, current and retired, salute the BSO’s longest-serving music director, citing his prodigious memory, athletic energy and inspirational leadership that transformed the orchestra into global prominence.

Seiji Ozawa, whose artistry shaped the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s sound for 29 years — longer than any other conductor — has died at 88.

The 74-year-old former longtime director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced that he will cancel about 30 concerts over the next six months to focus on treatment.

“When you when you walk around with Seiji Ozawa in Japan, it's like, you know, the heyday of Michael Jordan,” says BSO managing director Mark Volpe.

Seiji Ozawa crossed cultural barriers and upended stereotypes. The 80-year-old is honored in Washington this weekend.

Ah, Tanglewood. What a pleasure it remains to spend a weekend here: to stroll the green lawns, to sniff the flowers, to guess the music that some earn

The orchestra is in a period of transition, but one thing that remains consistent is the enduring quality of its summer home.

“Cultural philanthropy” is the potential cure for what ails many nonprofits, according to a new book co-authored by retired BSO President/CEO Mark Volpe, who raised nearly $1 billion for the

Thomas Wilkins, the BSO Youth and Family Concerts Conductor since 2011 and also an artistic adviser, says he’s ‘never been more in love with music than I am at this