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PETER MOST: The school funding formula that defies logic

Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.

World premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s timely ‘In America’ to celebrate Bernstein centenary

Conceived as a response to Bernstein's song cycle "Songfest," Gandolfi’s new work dares to ask what it means to be an American.

Violinist Joseph Silverstein, former Boston Symphony concertmaster, dies at age 83

His students populate the violin section of the BSO as well as many other leading orchestras in the United States and beyond.
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