By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Roman Totenberg, the distinguished violinist who was for decades a pillar of Boston’s music community, died Tuesday morning at age 101. Born in Poland, he made his professional debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at age 11. As a student of Carl Flesch and Georges Enesco, he represented one of the last living bridges to older European styles. In its prime, his playing possessed a virtuosity mixed with a rare elegance and spontaneity of phrasing, a sense of music’s lyrical imperatives far beyond the printed score.

By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff

Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, has passed away at the age of 47, according to the website of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. As one third of the pioneering New York hip-hop trio, with band mates Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond, Yauch experienced great critical and commercial success over the course of a nearly 30 year career. Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland last month.

By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,’’ a revival of the George Gershwin classic that began life last fall at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge before moving to Broadway, has racked up 10 Tony Award nominations, second only to “Once,’’ which received 11 nominations. “Porgy and Bess’’ was nominated for best revival of a musical, and Diane Paulus, the ART’s artistic director, was nominated as best director of a musical. For her unforgettable performance as the tormented Bess, Audra McDonald was nominated as best actress in a musical.

By Thomasine Berg, Globe Staff

Free streaming of recent Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood concerts will be available on the BSO’s website beginning with Tuesday’s 2 p.m. stream of the BSO playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Mendelssohn’s Overture and Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Bernard Haitink.

By Doug Most, Globe Staff

Dick Clark died today at 82 and the tributes are pouring in. So for a moment, just enjoy some of his legacy. Before MTV and VH1 and CDs and “What’s on your iPod” and overnight celebrities, there was “American Bandstand.”

By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff

Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday

By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

Citing health reasons, the Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has withdrawn from all of his upcoming American engagements, including a Celebrity Series recital scheduled for April 22 in Symphony Hall. That concert has now been canceled.

The people picketing at the Museum of Fine Arts this morning are members of the Museum Independent Security Union, which represents the MFA’s security guards. The protest came after the union’s contract expired on Saturday. The MFA, in a statement, said that it has proposed a new contract and is waiting for a response. For now, the security guards are working under an extention of the previous contract.

By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff

The BRA will return to the Fort Point neighborhood tomorrow night for a 6 p.m. meeting at neighboring 10 Channel Center. But nobody involved - Keen Development, Ops-Core, the BRA - will say what exactly will be announced at that meeting.

“We are discussing solutions with the owner and the tenant,” according to a statement from the BRA. “We hope to have a resolution by tomorrow night, but even if we don’t, we want to keep up communication with residents.”

Sarah Rodman, Wesley Morris, and Joanna Weiss discuss what’s happening on NBC’s backstage musical, “Smash” — and what should be happening instead.

By Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe Staff

The public radio program “This American Life,” which in January devoted an episode to storyteller Mike Daisey’s monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” has issued a retraction of that show due to what host Ira Glass is calling “significant fabrications” in the content of the monologue excerpt used in the show. Glass also says that Daisey lied to the program during fact-checking.

Sarah Rodman, Joanna Weiss, Wesley Morris, and Don Aucoin recap the television musical “Smash.”

Young Jean Lee’s “Church,” a Christian service shaped into avant-garde theater, will make its New England premiere this summer as part of the Harbor Stage Company’s inaugural, three-play season in Wellfleet, which will also include Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” and David Rabe’s haunted Ozzie-and-Harriet play, “Sticks and Bones.”

By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

“Patti’s Turn,’’ an alternately touching and funny tribute to the musical-theater legend Patti LuPone on Monday night in New York, gathered a Who’s Who of Broadway, including Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Laura Benanti, Harvey Fierstein, Boyd Gaines, Howard McGillin, Zoe Caldwell, and Kevin Kline. LuPone seemed to enjoy every minute of it.

By Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Correspondent

Who are Viggo Mortensen’s heroes? Ask him, and he doesn’t hold back. That’s what we learned when, after a recent interview, we sent the actor some follow-up questions via e-mail. His answers range from Mahatma Gandhi to Thor, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesse Owens, the crew of Apollo 11, Greta Garbo, Louis Armstrong, Noam Chomsky, Lao Tzu, Anna Akhmatova, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Bourke-White, Leonard Cohen, and Larry Bird.

By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present two new works, including a musical, this summer, WHAT’s first theater season since the departure last fall of longtime artistic director Jeff Zinn. Dan Lombardo, who has been named to replace Zinn, announced today that the WHAT lineup will feature world premieres of “The Consequences,’’ a musical by Nathan Leigh and Kyle Jarrow, and “Saving Kitty,’’ a comedy by Marisa Smith.

By Doug Most, Globe Staff

Meryl Streep joked in her Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actress on Sunday that audiences were sick and tired of her receiving so many awards. In truth, she makes it hard for people to tire of her. Streep this week donated $10,000 to a bankrupt school in Central Falls, R.I., where Viola Davis, star of “The Help” and the actress many expected to win Best Actress, grew up.

By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

David Hyde Pierce, who spent 11 seasons playing Niles Crane on NBC’s “Frasier,” then starred on Broadway in Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” will turn his hand to directing this summer, helming Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest’’ at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The Williamstown season will also include the world premiere of Katori Hall’s strikingly named “WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!’’

By Mawuse Ziegbe, Boston.com Staff

The Oscars are the premier Hollywood event, which honor the film industry’s best and brightest. The evening was also big for Massachusetts, which can boast a range of winners with ties to the Bay State. Check out some Oscar victors and their Mass. connections.

By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff

From the red carpet to the last statue, Globe film critic Wesley Morris blogs the 84th Academy Awards.