Keeping Score

Discoveries for all: insights for curious listeners, educators, students and everyone in between.

A self-portrait of its composer, Hector Berlioz.

Beethoven called his Third Symphony “Eroica” (“Heroic”).

Explore what brought Copland to write music that gave Americans a sense of identity.

The composition encourages the listener to think about sound in new ways.

Publicly condemned, Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony saved his life. Was there a hidden meaning?

Hear work that shocked the opening night audiences.

Part two of Keeping Score: Mahler explores the composer’s creative growth from the 1890s to his death.

In part one of Keeping Score: Mahler, MTT journeys to rural Bohemia to find the roots of the composer’s symphonic world.

Go behind-the-scenes for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s bold Fourth Symphony.

Explorations into the Stories Behind the Music