pLed by Music Director Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Associate Concertmaster Madeline Adkins will perform Sarasate’s Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen on Thursday, February 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 26 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Also on the program is The Confession of Isobel Gowdie by James MacMillan and Prokofiev’s triumphant Fifth Symphony./pp(PRWeb January 28, 2012)/ppRead the full story at a rel=nofollow/a/p

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is set to officially reopen the Shelburne Community Center in Roxbury following a $6 million renovation that shuttered the facility over the past nine months.

Kevin H. White, a four-term mayor who led Boston through years of racial violence and economic stagnation and was credited with putting the city on a path to prosperity, has died. He was 82.

(Reuters) - Former Boston Mayor Kevin White, who led the city for 16 years and shepherded it through a period of racial tension and court-ordered school desegregation, died on Friday at age 82. White, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer#39;s disease in 2003, died at his Boston home, family spokesman George Regan told local media. Boston was torn by racial violence in the 1970s as the city implemented ...

The former mayor was credited with putting the city on a path to prosperity. White also saw the city through court-ordered busing to desegregate public schools, but he ended his four-term tenure in 1983 under a cloud of ethics suspicions. White died Friday in his home. He was 82.