Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s “Slow Dreams of Eternity” at First Church of Boston on Sunday well and truly justified my agony of finding a place to park in the Back Bay.    [continued]

Tom Cipullo’s operatic theater piece Glory Denied portrays the martyrdom of the longest-suffering American Vietnam PoW. Saturday night’s student production of this God and country and broken marriage saga found ardent supporters at BoCo Berklee’s East Coast orchestral premiere.    [continued]

Tallis Scholars returned to St. Paul Church in Cambridge Friday for the Boston Early Music Festival with devotional texts that have endured through centuries of Catholic worship.    [continued]

Boston Baroque’s Messiah traversal yesterday in Jordan Hall delivered something serviceable, but short of sublimity, except for the two transcendent female soloists.    [continued]

The oldest continuously performing arts organization in America scored another first on Thursday night by presenting the six Brandenburg  Concerti of Bach as the first concert at Klarman Hall at the Harvard Business School.    [continued]

Conductor Masaaki Suzuki 鈴木 雅明, trained in improvisation and infused with a reported Calvinist bent, delivered a refreshing slant on H + H’s hallowed Messiah tradition. The early-instrument contingent, chorus, and remarkable soloists covered themselves in glory at Symphony Hall Sunday.    [continued]

Boston Early Music Festival’s virtuoso chamber ensemble treated us to a delectable evening of 17^th-century-opera selections based on the Orfeo legend. The performance I heard Friday at Jordan Hall will repeat on Sunday at 3:00.    [continued]

Christian Zacharias served as both superb conductor and pianist in a cleverly conceived amalgam of Brahms and Schumann with the BSO Friday.    [continued]

In “The Voice of the Cello,” cellist Joseph Gotoff and pianist SangYoung Kim explored Romantic and late-Romantic tropes and impressions from vocal and vocalise transcriptions at St. John’s Episcopal Church for a moment of respite and warmth on Sunday.    [continued]

“Now you know why I love to live in California,” said John Adams to this reviewer after the LA Phil Concert Saturday in Symphony Hall.    [continued]

Watching and hearing a very satisfying production of Argento’s Postcard from Morocco in NEC’s Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater Friday felt surprisingly similar to seeing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.    [continued]

Stefan Jackiw joined Benjamin Zander and the BPYO for HIP Mendelssohn before the orchestra responded like true believers to Zander’s interpretation of Mahler’s First.    [continued]

The resonant air came alive Saturday with the sound of Bach at First Church Cambridge as the Spectrum Singers counterpointed away with 16^th-note ha-ha-has galore, including, in one long run, 120 iterations—just for the basses.    [continued]

The ever-popular Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, with the remarkable 18-year-old Swedish soloist Daniel Lozakovich, formed the centerpiece of this weekend’s concerts from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall Thursday.  The three shorter pieces included  “My River runs to thee . . . ,”   Galina Gigorjeva’s 1999 Na iskhod (“On Leaving”) and Shostakovich’s single-movement Symphony No. 2 (To October).    [continued]

As the Zukerman Trio, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth and pianist Angela Cheng filled the Concord Academy hall Sunday with estimable intimacy, egalitarianism, and collegiality.    [continued]

A select, ad-hoc orchestra of volunteers inspired by cancer survivor Julie Scolnik played a moving benefit concert at Jordan Hall on Sunday.    [continued]

Harvard University’s Blodgett Artists-in-Residence, the Parker String Quartet, gave an enthusiastic crowd a well-honed and oft-inspired selection of  Mozart’s Hoffmeister quartet, Leon Kirchner’s first string quartet and Schubert’s “cello” quintet on Sunday.    [continued]

Curtis on Tour brought its brilliant quartet in residence along with an illustrious faculty pianist to Rockport in company with Beethoven, Bright Sheng, and Franck.    [continued]

Violinist Inmo Yang and pianist Sahun Hong offered diverse works for violin and piano at the Gardner this afternoon, sandwiching examples by three relatively unknown composers the stalwart sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert.    [continued]

Renaissance Men’s “On This Island,” an hour-long musical exploration of those islands to the West of the European continent, in settings ranging from traditional to art-song, filled the Parish Hall for Late Night at Emmanuel last night.    [continued]

Andris Nelsons’s BSO concerts this week pair Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (1868), Leif Ove Andsnes, soloist, with  Mahler’s Fourth Symphony featuring the radiant soprano Genia Kühmeier. “No music on earth can compare with ours.”    [continued]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450, condemning “sexual perversion,” which purged an estimated  1,200 federal employees accused of homosexual activity from the government in what is now known as the “lavender scare,” formed the backdrop  of Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers. I attended the Boston debut yesterday. BLO’s run continues through Sunday and the Paramount Center.    [continued]

The Terezin Music Foundation’s annual gala concert at Symphony Hall helped keep alive the memory and music of artists interned at the “model concentration camp.”    [continued]

Anne Azéma led the musicians of the Boston Camerata in the lively and moving “Free America! Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion” at Faneuil Hall Friday.    [continued]

Sounding great in its 80^th season, Masterworks Chorale gloried in Vivaldi at Sanders on Saturday under  Kevin Leong,    [continued]