The orchestra was born in crisis, and it has weathered more than a few since then. This season the Philharmonic celebrates its 30th anniversary – a milestone no one three decades ago could have confidently predicted the ensemble would reach. The Boston Philharmonic has become one of the defining musical institutions of Boston today, and one of the city’s defining musical personalities is Zander, its founding conductor. Today Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic help make sure the kettle continues to whistle. Over the centuries, many generations of composers, performers and ensembles have kept musical life at a boil, and so have the city’s wealth of universities and conservatories, their distinguished faculties and their adventurous students. Back in the 1940s, the early-instrument, historically-informed performance movement began here – and one of its tasks was to recover what had been accomplished in New England centuries before, when early music was still new music. For most of its history Boston has been a major center of musical life.
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