The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the Viano Quartet performing works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Webern, and Shostakovich 3 p.m. November 2 at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. celebrityseries.org ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...

What is an encore supposed to do? Delight, entrance, entertain? Send an audience out into the night with smiles on their faces? Or should it be more substantial and offer a serious musical statement?

“I have thought for a long time of giving up these nonsensical terms allegro, andante, adagio, presto,” Beethoven wrote in 1817. “And Malzel’s metronome gives us the best opportunity to do so.” Not ...