WHEN Serge Koussevitzky took his place at the conductor’s stand in Symphony Hall on October 10, 1924, to assume the direction of Boston’s famous symphony orchestra, the occasion marked the beginning ...

There is in Berkshire County a woman who is fast becoming famous in the musical world, where her husband was one of the powers. She is Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky, widow of the late great conductor of the ...

With the final chord of the Prelude to Die Meister singer, the courtly figure on the podium put down his baton, bowed elegantly to his audience, and strode from the stage. The orchestra and audience ...

IT WOULD be hard to find a more singular contrast in critical approach to a contemporary subject than these two books on the distinguished conductor of the Boston Symphony. Dr. Leichtentritt, a ...

Eric Chasalow, Irving Fine Professor of Music, has been awarded a prestigious commission from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for a major new original composition.

LENOX — The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood have always gone full-tilt putting on mini-festivals for celebrations and anniversaries. For the 150th birth anniversary of the Boston Symphony’s ...

This March, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present a range of innovative programs that link music with the sciences and humanities, champion the legacies of groundbreaking classical and jazz icons ...

In a subsequent statement issued here today through the American Fund for Israel Institutions, which will sponsor the nationwide tour of the Israel Symphony Orchestra in the United States, Dr. Serge ...

Boston, the Hub, has made another revolution. Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian conductor, a prophet of the new, a patron of the unknown, will direct the Boston Symphony this Winter. Last season it ...