Welcome spring and celebrate Pride and community at Handel's Water Music, presented by the Handel and Haydn Society at Symphony Hall on Friday, April 10 and Sunday, April 12.

When deciding on a theme for Fort Smith Symphony’s mainstage concerts, Conductor John Jeter doesn’t think of himself as a storyteller or a museum curator.

Some composers have the rare gift of naivety. They don’t impress or stir us with complexity. They simply place a luminous chord here, a sad drooping phrase there, balanced with unerring rightness.

The jazz great speaks with us about creative humility, turning 75 and why ‘In My Dreams’ is about collective conversation — not guitar heroics ...