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On a church rave, Emerson & Beethoven’s secret language.

Luke Lyman on a church rave, Emerson & Beethoven’s secret language.

An association of model train collectors is celebrating its 55th anniversary with a special exhibition at Newark Showground.

Who knew that 18th-century Austrian music scribes were unreliable?  Learning that blew Aram Lindroth’s mind. On a 2022 fall break trip to the New England Conservatory in Boston, he found out that not only were some early manuscripts of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and other works riddled with errors, but that the master composer actually used his own sophisticated dynamic markings. Those marks were too sublime for the scribes and didn’t make it into transcriptions. 

WOLFEBORO — Wolfeboro Friends of Music continues its 88th season with one of America’s most youthful chamber ensembles, Heifetz International Music Institute on Tour. This encore concert will take place

Theres a lot happening on the South Shore this fall, and here are just some events. And yes, we know it isnt quite fall yet.

From intimate to grandiose, arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounded up a list of the most notable events on the classical calendar from just after Labor Day through just before Christmas.

(July 31, 2023) The Balourdet Quartet, currently in residence at the New England Conservatory’s professional string program, will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Saint Paul’s Church, 20 Fair …

The overall message of the concert is a belief in the transcendence available within well-selected and well-played chamber music.

The FIU School of Music will open the 2021 edition of the FIU Music Festival on Oct. 20.