Swedish orchestral conductor Herbert Blomstedt was well into his 80s when he made a significant change to the way he makes music. He’d been conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, he said in a Zoom ...

Herbert Blomstedt is known as a Swedish musician, but Massachusetts likes to claim the maestro as our own. He was born here in Springfield before his parents, both musicians, brought him home to their ...

T his time last year, the San Francisco Symphony’s conductor laureate, Herbert Blomstedt, withdrew from a set of concerts he was slated to lead at Davies Symphony Hall. The nonagenarian had ...