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★ Our picks
A few concerts we’d go to this week, and why.
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Thu 7:30 PM
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Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
Hilary Hahn returns to Symphony Hall with cellist Seth Parker Woods for Carlos Simon's new
double concerto, then Nutcracker Act 2.
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Fri 7:30 PM
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Stile Antico: Polyphonic Postcards
Adventurous
Ticketed
St. Paul Parish, Cambridge, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Twelve conductorless singers tour Renaissance Paris, Seville, Munich, Rome, Lisbon and Venice,
ending with a Christopher Cerrone commission.
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Free and casual
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
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Thu 10:30 AM
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Open Rehearsal: Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Open rehearsal
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
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Thu 7:00 PM
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Wayman Chin, piano: Sweet Land
Up close
Some of each
Free
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
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Fri 12:15 PM
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Free Fridays organ concert: David Stultz
Concert hall
Free
Trinity Church, Back Bay, Boston
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Sun 10:00 AM
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Bach Cantata at Sunday service
Concert hall
Favourites
Free
Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
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Sun 7:00 PM
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Dana Maiben and Vivian Montgomery: An Outburst of Improvisors
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
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Tue 6:30 PM
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A Gathering in Music in Honor of Joel Cohen
Up close
Free
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
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Day by day
Thursday, October 15
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10:30 AM
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Open Rehearsal: Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Open rehearsal
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
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7:00 PM
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Wayman Chin, piano: Sweet Land
Up close
Some of each
Free
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
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7:30 PM
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Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
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7:30 PM
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Faculty Recital: Eden MacAdam-Somer featuring Gordon Beeferman
Concert hall
NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
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Friday, October 16
Saturday, October 17
Sunday, October 18
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10:00 AM
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Bach Cantata at Sunday service
Concert hall
Favourites
Free
Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
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1:30 PM
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ACRONYM: Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Up close
Adventurous
Cheap seats
Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fenway, Boston
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3:00 PM
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Faculty Recital: Paula Robison, flute: The Great Vivaldi
Concert hall
Favourites
NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
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4:00 PM
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Tan, Habibi & Beethoven
Concert hall
Some of each
Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
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7:00 PM
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Dana Maiben and Vivian Montgomery: An Outburst of Improvisors
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
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Tuesday, October 20
Watch and listen from anywhere
Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas. Times are Eastern. Links go to the
official pages.
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Oct 9 – 22
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Wieniawski Violin Competition: all rounds through the final
Competition
Free
Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety);
also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv
One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; all the
auditions are broadcast, ending with the final on Oct 22.
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Thu 7:30 PM ET
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Bella Hristova and Gloria Chien: Stravinsky, Messiaen and Prokofiev
Livestream
Free
Free livestream from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
(chambermusicsociety.org)
A violin-and-piano recital with a world premiere and Prokofiev's dark First Violin
Sonata.
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Fri 1:00 PM ET
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Garsington Opera's La traviata on OperaVision
Livestream
Recorded
Free
OperaVision (operavision.eu) and its YouTube channel. Available until 16 April 2027
A summer 2026 production from the English country-house festival, with the Philharmonia in the
pit.
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Sat 1:00 PM ET
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The Met: Live in HD: Verdi's Macbeth
In cinemas
Live in cinemas across the US (find one on metopera.org); US encore screenings Wed Oct 21
(times vary by cinema). Tickets vary by cinema. US encore screenings on Wednesday, Oct 21,
2026
A new Met production shown live, with Lise Davidsen singing Lady Macbeth and Nézet-Séguin
conducting.
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Sat 8:00 PM ET
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Fountains and Pines of Rome with the Detroit Symphony and Jader Bignamini
Livestream
Free
Free on YouTube Live (youtube.com/@detroitsymphony/streams), Facebook Live and Live from
Orchestra Hall (livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv)
Respighi's two Roman tone poems are big orchestral showpieces, and the program also has a
rarely heard piano concerto by Leokadiya Kashperova.
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Sat 8:00 PM ET
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Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods in Carlos Simon's Double Concerto
Radio
Free
CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page
says episodes are available on demand
It is a new double concerto by the BSO's composer chair, Carlos Simon, played by Hilary Hahn
and Seth Parker Woods.
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Sat 8:30 PM ET
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St. Louis Symphony: Kristiina Poska conducts Mozart and Schumann's 'Rhenish'
Radio
Free
90.7 KWMU St. Louis Public Radio and Classic 107.3 (both stream online)
Broadcast live from the concert, including a U.S. premiere by the Estonian composer
Krigul.
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Sun 4:00 PM ET
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Dalia Stasevska conducts Revueltas and Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony
Radio
Recorded
Free
WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 22, 2025)
Revueltas's colorful Mexican score, built from music he wrote for a film, is paired with
Dvořák's best-known symphony.
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Sun 7:00 PM ET
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Chicago Symphony: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Iveta Apkalna
Radio
Recorded
Free
WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and wfmt.com (CSO Radio Broadcast Series)
Salonen conducts his own organ concerto with Iveta Apkalna, between Strauss's Don Juan and
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.
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Thu Oct 22
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Czerny and Brahms for horn, clarinet and strings at CMS
Livestream
Free
Free livestream from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
(chambermusicsociety.org)
A rarely played Czerny serenade alongside Brahms's Horn Trio, with the horn player Radovan
Vlatković.
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