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Why can’t Taylor Swift perform her own songs? It’s complicated

When Taylor Swift is named the artist of the decade at the American Music Awards later this month, she may not be able to perform the songs that earned her the prize in the first place.

The Yellow Brick Road leads Elton John back to Boston

In what was billed as the singer's final concert in Boston, his focus was on hits and plenty of 'em.

At Passim’s 60th anniversary show, an evening of memories and music

Dar Williams, Peter Wolf, Josh Ritter, Patty Griffin, and Joan Baez were all on hand to celebrate the folk club that had helped launch their careers.

After 12 years away, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to an old favorite with the BSO

Though the concerto took up less than half the concert’s total run time, there’s no contest that it was the most memorable event on Thursday evening.

10 pop concerts sure to bring seasonal cheer
The holidays will feature the likes of Mariah Carey, Hanson, Pentatonix, and Lil Jon.

Boston Camerata uncovers sounds ‘that early music tends to forget’ with Hispanic Christmas concert
The December program features music from Renaissance Spain and early Hispanic settlements of the Americas.

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Ten ways to celebrate the holidays with classical music old and new

Classical holiday music from Handel and Haydn Society to the Boston Pops.

Keb’ Mo’s ‘Jingle Bell Jamboree’ is his remedy for the holiday blues

The singer just released his first Christmas album, and there isn't a traditional song on it.

A poignant pair carries Boston Lyric Opera’s faltering ‘Fellow Travelers’

Baritone Jesse Blumberg and tenor Jesse Darden were perfectly cast as clandestine gay lovers in McCarthy-era D.C., but staging and acoustic issues undercut the opera’s impact

How this Boston musician landed megastar conductor Simon Rattle for her breast cancer fund-raiser

With Rattle onboard, Julie Scolnik was able to recruit an orchestra full of elite players.

The on-again, off-again Flatlanders are on again

From the very beginning, the occasional trio of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock have followed an unconventional path, sometimes recording, sometimes touring, and for long stretches, doing neither.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters to headline Boston Calling in 2020

The dueling rock relics — accompanied by a third, still-unannounced headliner — are to head up a bill of over 60 “incredibly diverse” performers to be revealed in January.

An all-star lineup captures the enduring spirit of ’The Last Waltz’

It wasn’t a carbon-copy replication of an artist, but an homage to an event: the famous farewell concert performance by the Band 43 years ago on Thanksgiving Day 1976

Richard Goode returns to Jordan Hall with poise, poetry

The veteran pianist’s recital consisted of works by Bach, Janacek, Debussy, and Chopin.


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