6. Hear Voices of Hope

The fest returns. carnegiehall.org, April 16 to 30.

The two-week showcase of artistic resiliency moves online this year with more than 100 events, from fireside chats to orchestral blowouts. In the second category, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music by one of the great unsilenceable survivors: Shostakovich’s thingsare-terrible-but-I’m-not-dead-yet statement, a.k.a. his