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Our chief classical music critic bids farewell with some thoughts about what should be preserved in the field he’s covered for decades.

Jeannette Sorrell led superb voices and a stylish orchestra in Handel’s classic of the holiday season at Riverside Church.

Tenet Vocal Artists marked the 450th anniversary of the German Baroque composer Michael Praetorius’s birth, and the 400th of his death.

A winning cast opened the company’s holiday season with a trimmed, English-language version of Mozart’s classic.

Project 19, the orchestra’s series commissioning female composers, came back with a new work by Joan Tower.

Sondra Radvanovsky and Brian Jagde sing thrillingly, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a superb performance of Puccini’s classic.

Our chief classical music critic remembers playing and teaching the unforgettable scores of “Sweeney Todd,” “Sunday in the Park With George” and other shows.

Dima Slobodeniouk was an excellent fill-in with the New York Philharmonic in works by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

Zhu Wang played an unusually interesting and adventurous set of pieces at Zankel Hall.

For over four centuries, the Orpheus myth has inspired opera composers. One was Luigi Rossi, whose 1647 retelling deserves more attention.