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2026 Community Chamber Concert in West Roxbury

German Centre · 2:00 PM

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Dover Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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Roots Roadshow 2026

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
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Singers Night: Journey, Don't Stop Believin'

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

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Choral Evensong

Church · 5:45 PM

15 more dates through Mar 10
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Open Rehearsal: Jan Lisiecki performs Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

2 more dates through Nov 21
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Performance Studies Showcase

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
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A Celebration of Hip-Hop: Berklee Hip-Hop Hall of Fame Inducts Big Daddy Kane

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

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Free Fridays at Trinity Organ Concerts

Church · 12:15 PM

13 more dates through Mar 12
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Charles Haynes and the Tabernacle

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
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Pooh: La Nostra Storia North America Tour 2026

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

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Peter and the Wolf

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 12:00 PM

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Francis of Delirium with Paper Lady

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

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Coltrane 100: Both Directions at Once

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

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Coltrane 100: Lovano, Aldana, Genovese, Oh, and Watts

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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What Makes It Great? Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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Gershwin and Respighi Fountains of Rome

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 1:30 PM

1 more date through Nov 28
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Holiday Pops

Holiday Pops · 3:00 PM

15 more dates through Dec 24
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2026 Holiday Pops Sensory Friendly

Boston Pops · 10:30 AM

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Nadia Washington Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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2026 Holiday Pops Kids' Matinee

Boston Pops · 11:00 AM

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Handel’s Messiah Concert

Church · 2:00 PM

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Casse-Noisette: A Holiday Tale in Music

The French Library · 5:30 PM

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Holiday Pops Company Celebration with Sutton Foster

Boston Pops · 7:30 PM

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Jeremy Denk, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Stringfest: Jorge Santiago Arce with Boston Music Project, City Strings United, and Project STEP

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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Candlelight Carols

Church · 4:00 PM

1 more date through Dec 13
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Handel's Messiah

NEC's Jordan Hall · 7:00 PM

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New Year's Celebration

Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM

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New Year's Eve with Samara Joy and the Boston Pops

Boston Pops · 8:00 PM

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Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

10 more dates through Jan 23
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2027 Community Chamber Concert at Parish of All Saints

Parish of All Saints · 3:00 PM

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Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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2027 Community Chamber Concert

St. John's Episcopal Church · 4:30 PM

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What Makes It Great? Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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2027 Community Chamber Concert

Hibernian Hall · 3:00 PM

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Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Tchaikovsky Souvenir of Florence

Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM

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Lukas Sternath, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

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2027 Community Chamber Concert

Fenway Center · 1:30 PM

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Michel Camilo Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall & George Meyer

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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Mitsuko Uchida, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

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Youth Open Rehearsal: Prokofiev and Sibelius

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

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Paavo Järvi and Alisa Weilerstein: Prokofiev and Sibelius

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Feb 6
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Roxbury Concert Series: Ahmed Alom Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 12:00 PM

Free
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Isidore String Quartet with Jeremy Denk

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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2027 Community Chamber Concert

Conservatory Lab Charter School · 3:30 PM

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Celebrating Philip Glass at 90

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Feb 13
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Emmet Cohen Trio with Georgia Heers

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Junction Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Stravinsky, Shaw, and Tower

Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM

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Sō Percussion with Helado Negro and Kate Stables

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Damir Imamović

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Charles Yang

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Amanda Shea & Tim Hall Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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Flor de Toloache

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Zlata Chochieva, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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2027 Community Chamber Concert

The Foundry · 6:30 PM

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High School Open Rehearsal: Stravinsky Ballets: Petrushka and The Firebird

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

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Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

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Débo Ray Experience

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

NEC's Jordan Hall / Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM

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Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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Yoko Miwa Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

3 more dates through Mar 6
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Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Seong-Jin Cho, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

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London Symphony Orchestra with Antonio Pappano and Maxim Vengerov

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

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Celtic Night

Boston Pops · 7:30 PM

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Pavel Haas Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

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Rakish with Rasa String Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
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Fernando Brandão Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free

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