While you listen to @CRBClassical, peruse these astonishing photos! The world seen through young eyes, all worth celebrating: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Has a magical horse-drawn sleigh ride through twinkling trails followed by cocoa been on your bucket list? Well here ya go: www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/sleig...

Is there anywhere that ISN'T a good place to go sledding right now? 😱 www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/10-be...

The wondrous Marin Alsop in 2022, talking to @terrygross.bsky.social about all things conducting: www.mynspr.org/2022-04-04/c...

More than ever, the hungry need our help. Here is a deeply meaningful way to contribute: musicforfood.net/boston/the-s...

January can make you feel stuck ... dancing helps! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/free-...

While you hear Riccardo Muti conduct Mozart's 40th Symphony on Tuesday night at 10:00 on @crbclassical.bsky.social, consider this wondrous, big-footed purple gallinule, blown to Massachusetts by unusual winds! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Yep, the pink is still on: www.museumoficecream.com/pinkmas/

I love decorating cakes! But I'm usually alone ... this looks fun! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/milk-...

Fun! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/the-d...

138? That's a lot of magical things! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/138-m...

It's International Check Your Wipers Day! (really) Classical connection: The revered golden-age pianist Josef Hofmann patented the windshield wiper ... inspired by the good old-fashioned metronomome! More here: www.pianostreet.com/blog/article...

Hope you can join me at 7:30pm on Veterans Day when I'll bring you Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata on @crbclassical.bsky.social with the intense and intelligent pianist Jonathan Biss. His candor and insight about anxiety is moving and instructive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlw...

Hope you'll join me for Florence Price's first symphony on @crbclassical.bsky.social at 8:00pm on Friday, October 3rd. More about her (with a 1906 class photo in front of Jordan Hall at @necmusic.bsky.social!) in this interview: www.aaihs.org/the-life-and...

It is always a joy to hear the Tokyo String Quartet. Here's the NPR piece I wrote about their Boston farewell performance given here in our Fraser Performance Studio: www.npr.org/2013/04/10/1...

This Sunday, the 21st! Bring your kids to Cambridge's science extravaganza! cambridgesciencecarnival.org

A city can never have too much public art. Look at this wonderful installation near Boston's South Station (check out the back of it!) www.boston.com/news/arts/20...

It took only weeks for Schubert to finish his hour-long Octet. He was so immersed, he could barely make eye contact with his visitors. Tonight, just after 10:00, join me on @crbclassical.bsky.social for the miraculous result. I think it's thrilling to see the first page in Schubert's own hand:

Even a mediocre foliage season is stunning in Vermont www.boston.com/community/re...

Catch a 6-minute glimpse of the International Space Station on Friday morning at 5:37! We'll have Jordi Savall and his band for you on @crbclassical.bsky.social! Of course, it may be even more enthralling to look down from the station to good ol' Massachusetts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qlr...

Thank goodness publishers were willing to wade through the artfully indecipherable handwriting of Mr. Beethoven! Wednesday night on crbclassical.bsky.social at 8:30, join me for Beethoven’s 2nd piano trio — and enjoy the restless penmanship from this later piano trio!

Some goodness for your Wednesday featuring the @gbhmusic.bsky.social quartet-in-residence: youtu.be/Lvd9-j71W9k?...

Join me for Debussy's languid Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun on Wednesday night at 9:10 on @crbclassical.bsky.social! Nijinsky created and premiered it in 1912. Here's his sensual and utterly unique choreography: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrF2...

Get those comfy lounge chairs in position! A couple of meteor showers are scheduled to peak next week! Bring along a speaker and listen to @CRBClassical while you're gazing! www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showe...

Friends, the time to act is now! In the next few days, the Senate will vote on whether to claw back federal funding — this is our LAST CHANCE to stop this from happening. To help, please contact your Senators and tell them to protect public media. For easy steps to take: ProtectMyPublicMedia.org

I love Escher's print of The Sunken Cathedral, inspired by hearing Debussy's piano prelude. Which itself was inspired by a fantastical old Breton myth. I'll have Stokowsky's orchestral version, packed with mystery and atmosphere, at 8pm on Thursday the 9th. Join me on @crbclassical.bsky.social!

Be one with our beautiful city! Free concerts all summer long: www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/free-...

I've always been slightly obsessed by the handwriting of composers that I love. This is Schubert's elaborate penmanship. It's his last letter, sold at auction for $240,000. Listen with me on Tuesday night at 7:00 for his Trout Quintet, on @crbclassical.bsky.social! www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

Hope you'll join me at 10:00 on Wednesday night (July 2nd) for Till Fellner in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto on @crbclassical.bsky.social! Alfred Brendel was a guiding light for him. Here's my encounter with Till in our studios: www.npr.org/2009/11/25/1...

Summer farms to help you stop time for a while www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/14-fa...

This week, listen to CRBClassical.bsky.social with the car windows down while you make your way to Amesbury to celebrate the bees! www.ciderhill.com/pollinatorfe...

A chance to see Clifford Curzon playing Schubert's final piano sonata: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZe6...

The moon is undergoing a major lunar standstill ... (I think that sounds worse than it is 🤔) But the Strawberry Moon will be beaming away this week, and there are lots of June sky events: wtop.com/the-space-pl...

Manhattanhenge! Coming up in July! www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

On Monday evening, June 9th, at 7:30 on @crbclassical.bsky.social it's the magical sound of Yolanda Kondonassis playing her harp. Don't miss this beautiful interview with pianist Zsolt Bognár, on "Living the Classical Life"! She's amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWg...

Where could you possibly find more comfort than in a Parisian Street Fair and bread competition???? www.eventbrite.com/e/le-grand-p...

After a hot Thursday, what more wondrous place to go than the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? Free this Thursday from 3:00 to 9:00 and celebrating Pride Month! www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/fre...

I visited a cat café in Paris and lingered long ... but I didn't know there was one right here -- on Beacon Hill! www.asanctuarycafe.com

What's more intoxicating than the aroma of lilacs? This Sunday is Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum! What better Mother's Day could there be? www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/lilac...

Dreaming about nice sandy, tattered pages on the beach? www.eventbrite.com/e/beach-read...

Heads up! Books, books, books! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/bosto...

I just know so little ... you? Maybe these would help www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/10-fr...