There is still one Boston venue where you can hear live classical music. With under-the-radar consistency, Emmanuel Music continues its decades-long practice of performing Bach cantatas. As part of ...

I last heard a live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s B-Minor Mass back in February 2017, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus did it at Symphony Hall under music ...

For some of the more fortunate musical organizations, pandemic-related closures provided more than an occasion for existential panic. At places such as Emmanuel Music, the pandemic also provided ...

American poet Allen Ginsberg in 1989. Part of the Beat Generation, he is best known for his 1956 poem "Howl." (AP) Get ready to Howl. Emmanuel Music has a new plan for the weekend: Let’s stay up late ...

In an uncertain present, musicians who preserve the past are harder to find. Like everyone, bassoonist Tom Stephenson has seen his performing opportunities vanish. The longtime Boston-area freelancer, ...

To learn to play a string instrument — like the violin or cello — at a high level takes intense practice, lots of money for instruments and lessons, and ideally, involvement with an orchestra or other ...