2012–2013 season - Boston Symphony Orchestra

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bernard haitink
conductor emeritus
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Charles Dutoit
October 18–23, 25–27, January 24–26
Joshua Bell
October 4–6
Intimate and majestic:
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spotlight on th e bso
Internationally renowned violinist Itzhak
Perlman makes his first Symphony Hall
appearance on the BSO podium, as both
conductor and soloist for an all-Beethoven
program featuring him as soloist-conductor
in the composer’s lyrical Romances for
violin and orchestra and as conductor
for Beethoven’s perennially popular
Seventh Symphony.
Following the great success of the BSO’s
“members-only” concerts in January 2012,
the individual sections of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra again take the stage
conductor-less, in April, to play music of
Britten, Mozart, Dvořák, and Tippett, as part
of a program in which the full ensemble
joins forces for Britten’s Variations and
Fugue on a Theme of Purcell—aka The Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
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Eight virtuosi of the violin appear with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra in programs
during 2012–13: the American Joshua Bell,
playing Bernstein’s Serenade (after
Plato’s Symposium); the German Arabella
Steinbacher, playing the Mendelssohn
concerto also; American violinist Gil Shaham,
performing Britten’s Violin Concerto;
Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili, playing
the Tchaikovsky concerto; Latvian violinist
Baiba Skride, making her BSO debut with
Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1;
French violinist Renaud Capuçon, making
his Symphony Hall debut with the Sibelius
concerto; the Israeli-American Pinchas
Zukerman, playing Oliver Knussen’s Violin
Concerto; and Danish violinist Nikolaj
Znaider, who performs the Brahms concerto
in the final program of the season.
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A number of BSO members are also featured
as soloists in 2012–13: the Hawthorne String
Quartet (Ronan Lefkowitz, Si-Jing Huang,
Mark Ludwig, and Sato Knudsen) in Ervín
Schulhoff’s Concerto for String Quartet
and Wind Orchestra with BSO Assistant
Conductor Marcelo Lehninger on the
podium; and BSO principals Elizabeth Rowe,
John Ferrillo, William R. Hudgins, Richard
Svoboda, James Sommerville, Thomas Rolfs,
and Toby Oft in Frank Martin’s Concerto
for Seven Wind Instruments, Timpani,
Percussion, and String Orchestra with
Charles Dutoit conducting.
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February 28, March 1–2
Christian Zacharias
November 23–27
Bernard Haitink
April 25–30, May 2–4
Powerful and nuanced:
it’s your BSO
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No fewer than nine pianists appear with the
orchestra in 2012–13. Four of them appear
in November—the prizewinning young
Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, who makes
his BSO debut with Tchaikovsky’s Piano
Concerto No. 1; the formidable Russian
pianist Kirill Gerstein, who makes his BSO
debut with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1;
German pianist-conductor Christian
Zacharias, who leads Mozart’s elegant
Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456, from
the keyboard, as part of a Haydn-MozartBeethoven program; and French pianist JeanYves Thibaudet, who is soloist in Saint-Saëns’
Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian.
Also featured this season are Russian pianist
Nikolai Lugansky, making his BSO debut
with Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3; British
pianist Stephen Hough, returning for Liszt’s
Piano Concerto No. 1; Romanian pianist
Radu Lupu, returning for Mozart’s Concerto
No. 23 in A, K.488; Chinese pianist Lang Lang,
making his BSO debut with Rachmaninoff’s
Concerto No. 2; and American pianist Garrick
Ohlsson, returning for Rachmaninoff’s
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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Seventeen of the world’s best conductors
lead the BSO at Symphony Hall in its 2012–13
season. British conductor Bramwell Tovey
opens the season with concert performances
of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. BSO Conductor
Emeritus Bernard Haitink closes it with
music of Brahms, Schubert, and Mahler.
In between, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck
de Burgos, and Daniele Gatti lead three
programs each, and Christoph von Dohnányi
leads two programs. Vladimir Jurowski
makes his BSO debut leading Mendelssohn
and Shostakovich, Andris Nelsons makes
his BSO debut with music of Shostakovich
and Tchaikovsky, and Stéphane Denève
returns to Symphony Hall for the third
consecutive season.
a feast of voices
Aficionados of the human voice will have
plenty to please them during the BSO’s
2012–13 season. The opening program
reprises the BSO’s triumphant August
2011 concert performance at Tanglewood
of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess led
by conductor Bramwell Tovey with Alfred
Walker and Laquita Mitchell in the title roles.
Charles Dutoit leads a magical double bill of
Stravinsky’s fairy-tale opera The Nightingale,
inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen
story, with Russian soprano Olga Peretyatko
making her BSO debut in the title role, and
Ravel’s one-act opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges
(The Child and the Magic Spells), with FrenchCanadian mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne
making her BSO debut as the Child taught
the meaning of love and kindness by the
toys, animals, and articles of furniture he
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Tanglewood Festival Chorus
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Daniele Gatti
January 17–19, March 21–26, 28–30
Illuminating and transforming:
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Great symphonic works ranging from Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven through music of
the twentieth century figure prominently in
the BSO’s 2012–13 programming—notably
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 5, Schubert’s Great C major
symphony, Brahms’s Haydn Variations,
Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, Tchaikovsky’s
Romeo and Juliet and Symphony No. 5,
Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony, Bruckner’s
Symphony No. 4 (Romantic), Mahler’s
Third and Fourth symphonies, Ravel’s
La Valse, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 6, music
from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet,
Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements,
and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4.
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The year 1813 was an important year for
music-lovers, and particularly opera-lovers,
witnessing the birth of both Richard Wagner
and Giuseppe Verdi. The BSO marks the
Verdi bicentennial with performances in
January of Verdi’s Requiem under the
direction of Daniele Gatti, with the
Tanglewood Festival Chorus and four vocal
soloists all making their BSO debuts—
Fiorenza Cedolins, Ekaterina Gubanova,
Fabio Sartori, and Carlo Colombara. Gatti, the
BSO, and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung
join forces in March to mark the Wagner
bicentennial with an all-Wagner program of
excerpts from Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde,
Götterdämmerung, and Parsifal, plus the
Siegfried Idyll.
compose rs of ou r time
Two of today’s most brilliant and acclaimed
British composers take the BSO podium in
2012–13. In November, Thomas Adès leads his
own In Seven Days for piano and orchestra
as part of a wide-ranging program also
including music of Prokofiev and Sibelius,
with soprano Dawn Upshaw and pianist
Kirill Gerstein in his BSO debut. In April,
Oliver Knussen leads his own Violin
Concerto with soloist Pinchas Zukerman,
and his own Whitman Settings with soprano
Claire Booth in her BSO debut, as part of a
program also including music of Miaskovsky
and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition as
orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski.
In addition, two new BSO commissions enter
the orchestra’s repertoire—Finnish composer
Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map for orchestra
and electronics, a BSO co-commission
receiving its American premiere under the
direction of Juanjo Mena, and American
composer Augusta Read Thomas’s Cello
Concerto No. 3, a world premiere
featuring soloist Lynn Harrell with
Christoph Eschenbach conducting.
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Concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
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ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Romances Nos. 1 and 2 for violin and orchestra
Symphony No. 7
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Thursday, September 27
Friday, September 28
Saturday, September 29
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess
Alfred Walker, bass-baritone
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(Porgy); Laquita Mitchell,
soprano (Bess); Alison Buchanan, soprano (Lily, Strawberry Woman);
Angel Blue, soprano (Clara); Marquita Lister, soprano (Serena); Krysty Swann,
mezzo-soprano (Annie); Gwendolyn Brown, contralto (Maria); Calvin Lee, tenor
(Mingo, Nelson, Crab Man); Jermaine Smith, tenor (Sportin’ Life);
Chauncey Packer, tenor (Peter); Gregg Baker, baritone (Crown);
Patrick Blackwell, baritone (Jim, Undertaker); John Fulton, baritone (Robbins);
Robert Honeysucker, baritone (Frazier); Leon Williams, baritone (Jake);
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
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Thursday, October 4
Friday, October 5, 1:30pm
Saturday, October 6
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet,
Fantasy-overture
BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s
Symposium) for violin and orchestra
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
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Tuesday, October 9
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Hawthorne String Quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet,
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SCHULHOFF Concerto for String Quartet
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DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
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Thursday, October 11
Friday, October 12, 1:30pm
Saturday, October 13
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 4
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Thursday, October 18
Friday, October 19, 1:30pm
Saturday, October 20
Tuesday, October 23
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
John Ferrillo, oboe
William R. Hudgins, clarinet
Richard Svoboda, bassoon
James Sommerville, horn
Thomas Rolfs, trumpet
Toby Oft, trombone
DEBUSSY Symphonic Fragments
from The Martydom of Saint Sebastian
MARTIN Concerto for Seven Wind
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RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
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Thursday, October 25
Friday, October 26
Saturday, October 27*
Charles Dutoit, conductor
STRAVINSKY The Nightingale
Olga Peretyatko, soprano
RAVEL L’Enfant et les sortilèges
(The Nightingale)
Concert performances, sung in Russian
Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
(Stravinsky) and French (Ravel) with
(The Child)
English supertitles
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Diana Axentii and Yvonne Naef, mezzo-sopranos
Edgaras Montvidas and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenors
David Kravitz, Kelley Markgraf, and David Wilson-Johnson, baritones
Matthew Rose, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
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Thursday, November 1
Friday, November 2, 1:30pm
Saturday, November 3
Tuesday, November 6
SAARIAHO Circle Map, for orchestra and
electronics (American premiere;
BSO co-commission)
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
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Legendary Israeli-born violinist Itzhak Perlman joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra as both soloist and conductor
to begin the 2012–2013 season with an all-Beethoven Opening Night at Symphony. The program starts with
the composer’s lyrical early Romances No. 1 and 2 for violin and orchestra. Completing the program is the danceinfused Symphony No. 7 which the composer himself acknowledged as one of his finest works.
Reprising a highlight of the 2011 Tanglewood season, English conductor Bramwell Tovey, the BSO, a distinguished
cast of soloists—headlined by Alfred Walker and Laquita Mitchell in the title roles—and the Tanglewood Festival
Chorus present concert performances of George Gershwin’s great American masterpiece, the blues-and-jazzinflected Porgy and Bess. Described by the composer as an “American folk opera,” Porgy and Bess premiered on
Broadway in 1935 and only slowly gained traction in the traditional world of opera. Three quarters of a century
later, it has assumed its rightful place among the greatest works of America’s music.
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Acclaimed for his previous Boston Symphony performances at both Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall, BSO
assistant conductor Marcelo Lehninger leads a program pairing the Romantic with the ruminative. American
violinist Joshua Bell is soloist in Bernstein’s Serenade inspired by Plato’s Symposium, a dialogue on the nature and
value of love. Also on the program are two audience favorites: Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged fantasy-overture
Romeo and Juliet, and Dvořák’s bucolic Symphony No. 8.
This concert under the direction of acclaimed BSO assistant conductor Marcelo Lehninger offers two audience
favorites: Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, and Dvořák’s bucolic Symphony
No. 8. In between, the Hawthorne String Quartet, made up of four BSO members, is featured in Ervín Schulhoff’s
multi-faceted Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra (1930). Schulhoff, a gifted Czech composer
whose bracing neoclassical style was influenced by jazz, died of tuberculosis in a concentration camp in 1942.
Making his Boston Symphony debut, Vladimir Jurowski, principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra,
is joined by German violinist Arabella Steinbacher for Mendelssohn’s sparkling Violin Concerto. The program
concludes with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4, a dark but powerfully majestic work the composer finished in 1936.
He withdrew the work prior to its premiere due to fears of official condemnation, writing instead the universally
acclaimed, heroic Fifth the following year. The Fourth waited another quarter-century for its first performance.
Acclaimed conductor Charles Dutoit leads the BSO in a program overflowing with virtuosity. Soloist Nikolai Lugansky
makes his BSO debut in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a massive and daunting work that tests every aspect
of a pianist’s skill. Not to be outdone, the orchestra’s first-chair wind players step to the front of the stage to
demonstrate the orchestra’s own resident virtuosity in Frank Martin’s mid-20th-century Concerto for Seven Wind
Instruments, Timpani, Percussion, and String Orchestra. Opening the program is colorfully atmospheric music by
Debussy: the rarely heard Symphonic Fragments from his incidental music to Gabriele d’Annunzio’s mystery play
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
Charles Dutoit takes the podium for a second week to lead the BSO, an international cast of vocal soloists, and the
Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a compelling operatic double bill pairing Stravinsky’s The Nightingale and Ravel’s
L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Magic Spells). Stravinsky’s 1914 opera The Nightingale—begun before,
but completed after, his famous trio of ballets for Sergei Diaghilev—is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy
tale about a Chinese emperor and two nightingales—one real, the other mechanical. Completed in 1925, Ravel’s
one-act opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges—the story of a child movingly taught the meaning of love and affection—is
infused with whimsy and magic.
Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, leads the American premiere of
influential Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map, for orchestra and electronics, a BSO co-commission.
Violinist Gil Shaham, a frequent guest with the orchestra, joins the BSO for Benjamin Britten’s rarely performed
Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Dvo ř ák’s darkly majestic Symphony No. 7, which bespeaks
both his love for his native Bohemia and the influence of his mentor, Johannes Brahms.
boston symphony orchestra 20 1 2– 2 0 1 3 se ason
november 8 – february 16
Concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
Date
Conductor/Soloist
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Thursday, November 8
Friday, November 9, 1:30pm
Saturday, November 10
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano
SIERRA Fandangos for orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
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Thursday, November 15
Friday, November 16, 1:30pm
Saturday, November 17
Thomas Adès, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Kirill Gerstein, piano
SIBELIUS Luonnotar, for soprano and orchestra
ADÈS In Seven Days, for piano and orchestra
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6
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Saturday, November 24*
Tuesday, November 27
Christian Zacharias, conductor
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HAYDN Symphony No. 76
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus
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Thursday, November 29
Friday, November 30, 1:30pm
Saturday, December 1
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
BERLIOZ Overture to Les Francs-juges
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
MacMILLAN Three Interludes from The Sacrifice
ROUSSEL Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
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Thursday, January 10
Friday, January 11, 1:30pm
Saturday, January 12
Tuesday, January 15
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
DUTILLEUX Métaboles for Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
RAVEL La Valse
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Thursday, January 17
Friday, January 18
Saturday, January 19
Daniele Gatti, conductor
VERDI Requiem
Fiorenza Cedolins, soprano
Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano
Fabio Sartori, tenor
Carlo Colombara, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
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Thursday, January 24
Friday, January 25, 1:30pm
Saturday, January 26
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphoses
on Themes of Weber
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
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Thursday, January 31
Friday, February 1, 1:30pm
Saturday, February 2
Tuesday, February 5
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
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Thursday, February 7
Friday, February 8, 1:30pm
Saturday, February 9
Tuesday, February 12
Christoph von Dohnányi,
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Renaud Capuçon, violin
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
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Thursday, February 14
Friday, February 15, 1:30pm
Saturday, February 16
Christoph von Dohnányi,
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Radu Lupu, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, Romantic
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At the heart of the BSO’s November 8–10 program—led by Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, and
featuring Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov in his BSO debut—are two powerhouse Russian works: Tchaikovsky’s
Piano Concerto No. 1, a fan-favorite and repertoire staple, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, described as a “hymn
to free and happy Man,” which the composer wrote in 1944 amidst the chaos of World War II. Puerto Rican-born
composer Roberto Sierra’s colorful Fandangos for orchestra (2000) opens the program.
English conductor Thomas Adès takes the podium for concerts including his own composition In Seven Days,
for piano and orchestra, featuring soloist Kirill Gerstein. Gerstein also performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1,
dating from the composer’s student years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Framing the program are two
works by Sibelius—his mystical tone poem Luonnotar for soprano and orchestra, a musical take on the Finnish
creation story, featuring American soprano Dawn Upshaw; and his poetic, fantasia-like Symphony No. 6.
Christian Zacharias displays both his podium and keyboard skills in an all-Classical program featuring the three
great masters of the Austro-German Classical style, beginning with the BSO’s first-ever performances of Haydn’s
Symphony No. 76. The program continues with Mr. Zacharias at the keyboard for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18.
For the second half of the program, the BSO plays its first-ever performances of Beethoven’s complete ballet score
to The Creatures of Prometheus.
Returning to the BSO podium for the third consecutive season, French conductor Stéphane Denève leads the
BSO in a trio of French works by composers from his native country: Berlioz’s dynamic overture to his unfinished
early opera Les Francs-juges, Albert Roussel’s Suite No. 2 from his 1930 ballet Bacchus et Ariane, and Saint-Saëns’s
Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian, with fellow Frenchman Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist. Also on the program are
the Three Interludes from The Sacrifice, Scottish contemporary composer James MacMillan’s 2006 opera on a
story from The Mabinogion, an ancient collection of Welsh legend.
In-demand young violinist Lisa Batiashvili is featured in Tchaikovsky’s ultra-Romantic Violin Concerto at the
heart of a program conducted by New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert, who also leads the BSO
in three 20th-century works: Dutilleux’s Métaboles for Orchestra, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements,
the first major work the composer wrote after moving to the United States in 1939; and Ravel’s remarkable
musical deconstruction of dance, La Valse.
To mark the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth in 1813, Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, music director of the Orchestre
National de France, leads the BSO in three performances of the composer’s Requiem with the Tanglewood
Festival Chorus and four vocal soloists all making their BSO debuts. One of the greatest of all works for orchestra,
soloists, and chorus, Verdi’s massive, theatrical Requiem was completed in 1874, dedicated to the memory of
the great Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni—a personal hero of Verdi’s—and premiered on the
first anniversary of Manzoni’s death.
Conductor Charles Dutoit returns for his third week of concerts during the 2012–13 season, this time for a
program featuring virtuoso English pianist Stephen Hough in Liszt’s scintillatingly virtuosic Piano Concerto
No. 1. The program begins with Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber—which
translates material from works by Carl Maria von Weber into a virtuoso showpiece for orchestra—and
concludes with music from Prokofiev’s sweeping and colorful ballet score Romeo and Juliet.
Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons makes his BSO debut in these concerts, having previously conducted the
orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He is joined by the exciting young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, who makes her BSO
debut as soloist in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, which was written in the late 1940s but only premiered
in 1955, after Stalin’s death helped relax the constraints on artistic expression in the USSR. The second half of
the program is devoted to Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, the second of his well-known last three symphonies.
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The eminent German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leads three masterpieces from the heart of the orchestral
repertoire. The program begins with Brahms’s earliest orchestral masterpiece, his Variations on a Theme by Haydn,
a prime example of theme-and-variations form that demonstrates the Romantic-era composer’s fidelity to the
Classical tradition. French violinist Renaud Capuçon, in his BSO debut, then joins the orchestra for Sibelius’s Violin
Concerto, a pinnacle of the concerto repertoire. The program concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
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For his second week of concerts this season, Christoph von Dohnányi is joined by revered Romanian pianist
Radu Lupu—known for his individual interpretations of the great masterpieces of the piano repertoire—for
Mozart’s elegantly soft-spoken Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, completed in 1786 when Mozart was at the height of
his popularity in Vienna. Also on the program is Bruckner’s expansive Symphony No. 4, Romantic, marked by the
soaring grandeur and long-breathed melodies so characteristic of that composer.
boston symphony orchestra 20 1 2– 2 0 1 3 se ason
february 21 – may 4
Concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
Date
Conductor/Soloist
Thursday, February 21
Friday, February 22, 1:30pm
Saturday, February 23
Tuesday, February 26
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos,
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella (complete)
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HAYDN Mass in Time of War
Alexandra Coku, soprano
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
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Friday, March 1
Saturday, March 2
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Friday, March 15, 1:30pm
Saturday, March 16
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor MOZART Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Lynn Harrell, cello
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Olivier Latry, organ
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Friday, March 22, 1:30pm
Saturday, March 23
Tuesday, March 26
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Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano Prelude to Lohengrin
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Orchestral excerpts from Götterdämmerung
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Saturday, March 30
Daniele Gatti, conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 3
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
Boys of PALS Children’s Chorus, Andy Icochea Icochea, conductor
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Saturday, April 13
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Claire Booth, soprano
MIASKOVSKY Symphony No. 10
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Friday, April 19, 1:30pm
Saturday, April 20
Tuesday, April 23
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BRITTEN Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury
MOZART Serenade No. 11 in E-flat for winds, K.375
DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings
TIPPETT Praeludium, for brass, bells, and percussion
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Friday, April 26
Saturday, April 27
Tuesday, April 30
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
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Friday, May 3, 1:30pm
Saturday, May 4
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Nikolaj Znaider, violin
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Veteran BSO conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos joins the BSO for two very different works for orchestra and voices:
the complete music from Stravinsky’s 1919 ballet Pulcinella—an early example, reinterpreting Baroque music, of the
composer’s neoclassical style, and named for a character from Italian commedia dell’arte—and Haydn’s Mass in Time
of War, composed in 1796 during the series of European wars following the French Revolution. These concerts feature
the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, three soloists making return appearances at Symphony Hall—Alexandra Coku,
Karen Cargill, and Matthew Polenzani—and, in his BSO debut, bass Ildebrando D’Arcangelo.
With Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos on the podium, the sensational Chinese pianist Lang Lang makes his BSO
debut in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Two works tied to the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
bookend the program: Hindemith’s Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky
and the BSO on the occasion of the orchestra’s 50th anniversary in 1931, and Bartók’s ingeniously kaleidoscopic
Concerto for Orchestra, a Koussevitzky commission premiered by the BSO in 1944.
A new BSO-commissioned work receives its world premiere performances when Lynn Harrell is the featured
soloist in American composer Augusta Read Thomas’s Cello Concerto No. 3. Conducted by National Symphony
Orchestra music director Christoph Eschenbach, the program also includes Saint-Saëns’s sonorous Symphony
No. 3, his so-called Organ Symphony, featuring French organist Olivier Latry in his BSO debut, as well as Mozart’s
Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, the composer’s final work in the genre and a pinnacle of the Classical style.
Daniele Gatti, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the BSO celebrate the bicentennial of Wagner’s birth with
music from four of the composer’s operas—the ethereal Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin; the Prelude and Liebestod
from Tristan und Isolde; orchestral excerpts from Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), the final opera of
Wagner’s gargantuan Ring cycle; and vocal and orchestral excerpts from his great final opera, Parsifal. Also on
the program is Wagner’s chamber-musical Siegfried Idyll, composed as an intimate birthday present for his wife
Cosima in 1869.
For his third program of the season, Daniele Gatti conducts Mahler’s multi-faceted and emotionally wide-ranging
Symphony No. 3, a work notable for its length, difficulty, and overwhelming cumulative impact. For this performance,
the expanded ranks of the BSO are joined by the eminent Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the women of
the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the boys of the PALS Children’s Chorus. Across its nearly 100-minute length, the
broad musical canvas of Mahler’s Third Symphony incorporates a full range of musical and emotional expression.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads a program bookended by two works tied to the history of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. The program begins with Hindemith’s Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass, commissioned by Serge
Koussevitzky and the BSO on the occasion of the orchestra’s 50th anniversary in 1931. Bartók’s ingeniously
kaleidoscopic Concerto for Orchestra, a Koussevitzky commission premiered by the BSO in 1944, brings the
concert to a close. Between these two works, the great American pianist Garrick Ohlsson in Rachmaninoff’s
ever-popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
The distinguished British composer/conductor Oliver Knussen leads his own Violin Concerto (2002) with soloist
Pinchas Zukerman, for whom the piece was written. Then, making her BSO debut, English soprano Claire Booth takes
center stage for Knussen’s 1992 Whitman Settings, for soprano and orchestra. The program opens with the Symphony
No. 10 by the early 20th-century Russian composer Nikolai Miaskovsky and closes with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an
Exhibition in a rarely heard orchestration by Leopold Stokowski.
Following the great success of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “members-only” concerts in January 2012,
the individual sections of the orchestra again take the stage conductor-less to perform Britten’s Fanfare for
St. Edmundsbury, Mozart’s Serenade No. 11 in E-flat for winds, K.375, Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, and Tippett’s
Praeludium for brass, bells, and percussion. The full ensemble then joins forces for Britten’s well-known Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, which shines a spotlight on each section of the orchestra in turn.
BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink—who was the Boston Symphony’s principal guest conductor from
1995 to 2004—takes the helm for the last two weeks of the 2012–2013 season, beginning with a program of
Schubert and Mahler symphonies. The teenaged Schubert composed his Symphony No. 5, a bracingly youthful
work suggestive of Haydn and Mozart, in just a few weeks in the summer of 1816. After intermission, Swedish
soprano Camilla Tilling is soloist in Mahler’s mellifluous Symphony No. 4, a musical journey from earth to heaven.
Bernard Haitink returns to the podium to lead the BSO’s final concerts of its 2012–13 season, featuring the compelling
Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider in Brahms’s soaring Violin Concerto. Mr. Haitink and the orchestra then end the
season in grand fashion with Schubert’s Symphony in C, The Great—the composer’s ultimate (in both senses of the
word: it is his biggest and last word in the genre) symphony—famously praised for its “heavenly length” by
Robert Schumann, who observed also that it “transports us into a world we cannot recall ever having been before.”
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Friday evenings at 8pm
With the continuing success of our UnderScore Friday series, all Friday-evening concerts follow this
same format, with patrons hearing comments from the stage about each program.
September 28, 8pm
October 26, 8pm
January 18, 8pm
March 29, 8pm
April 12, 8pm
April 26, 8pm
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
at Jordan Hall
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players combine the talents of the BSO’s principal
players to explore the full spectrum of chamber music repertoire. Concerts take place
on four Sunday afternoons at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
Tickets: $38, $29, $22; Four Concert Series: $128, $92, $72
sunday, november 18 3pm
with Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein, pianos
Music for piano four-hands
CARTER Figment III for double bass
CARTER Wind Quintet
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
sunday, january 13 3pm
LUTOSŁAWSKI Dance Preludes for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello,
and double bass
FRANK Sueños de Chambi for flute and piano
COPLAND Appalachian Spring (original chamber version)
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MARTINŮ Nonet for winds and strings
MOZART String Quintet in G minor, K.516
For individual tickets call 617-266-1200 or visit bso.org. Please note that on the day of the concert,
tickets may only be purchased at Jordan Hall.
To purchase the four-concert series, call the Subscription Office at 888-266-7575.
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Dining at the BSO
Whether you’re in the mood for a relaxed, sit-down
dinner with friends or a quick bite before the show,
Symphony Hall’s many dining options—from a
traditional, Barcelona-style tapas bar to seasonal,
à la carte entrees prepared by Boston Gourmet’s
on-site chefs—are sure to fulfill your desire for an
unforgettable evening out. And pre-ordering is
made easy when you purchase your tickets.
Consider pre-concert, prix fixe dining at Symphony Café and à la carte dining in the Cabot-Cahners
Room. Arrive early and relax over food and drink amidst the historic surroundings of Symphony Hall.
Intermission dining is also available.
symphony café
Symphony Café offers buffet-style dining from 5:30pm until concert time for all evening Boston
Symphony concerts, and lunch from 11am prior to Friday-afternoon concerts. Please enter at the
Cohen Wing on Huntington Avenue. For reservations call 617-638-9328. Visit bso.org/dining to view
sample menus.
cabot-cahners & o’block/kay rooms
Casual pre-concert and intermission dining is available in both the Cabot-Cahners and O’Block/Kay
Rooms. Enjoy gourmet sandwiches, cheese and fruit plates, and desserts, along with a full complement
of beverages, including coffee, tea, wine, beer, soda, liquor, and champagne splits.
coffee and other refreshments around the hall
The Refreshment Bar, located outside of the O’Block/Kay Room (next to the coat room), serves coffee,
tea, espresso, cappuccino, mochaccino, and a variety of non-alcoholic beverages, as well as assorted
mini-sandwiches, appetizers, and snacks. Coffee is also available at the bars in the O’Block/Kay and CabotCahners Rooms. Celebrate an evening of world class music at the Champagne Bar, located outside the
O’Block/Kay Room, offering champagne by the glass, cognac, armagnac, and gourmet chocolates.
Visit BSO.ORG
bso media offerings
In addition to comprehensive access to all BSO, Boston Pops, Tanglewood, and Symphony Hall
performance schedules, patrons have access to a number of free and paid media options including radio
broadcast concert streams, audio concert previews, Emmy Award-winning audio and video interviews
of guest artists and BSO musicians, up to 3-minute music excerpts highlighting upcoming programs
as well as all self-produced albums by the BSO, Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Chamber Players,
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Tanglewood Music Center Fellows, and complete program notes
for all performances that you can download and print or save offline to an e-reading device such as
a Kindle or Nook. All media content is accessible throughout BSO.org, but can also be accessed in a
centralized location via the BSO Media Center at BSO.org/MediaCenter.
bso kids website
The BSO kids website offers kids and parents access to a number of educational games and resources
designed to be fun and help teach various aspects of music theory and musical concepts. Games
include “Cue the Conductor,” build and play your own “Monstrument,” “Catchy Tuba,” “Play That
Tune,” and “Music Memory.”
coming this fall! bso.org mobile
On the go and need to buy tickets to the BSO? Access the new BSO.org on your smartphone!
Access performance schedules, purchase tickets, pre-order food and beverages to enjoy prior to a
performance. Download program notes, listen to music clips and concert previews, or make a donation
to your favorite BSO annual fund.
facebook, twitter, and youtube
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facebook.com/bostonsymphony, watch all the latest video content at youtube.com/bostonsymphony,
or follow the BSO on Twitter, and receive all of the latest BSO news up to the minute.
Free Educational Opportunities
bso 101: are you listening?
friday previews
Friday Previews take place from 12:15–12:45pm
in Symphony Hall before all of the BSO’s Fridayafternoon subscription concerts throughout
the season. Given by BSO Director of Program
Publications Marc Mandel and Assistant Director
of Program Publications Robert Kirzinger, these
informative half-hour talks incorporate recorded
examples from the music to be performed.
bso 101—a free adult education
series on tuesday and wednesday
evenings, 5:30–6:45pm
BSO 101 returns in 2012–13, offering seven Wednesdayevening sessions designed to enhance your listening
abilities, and four Tuesday-evening sessions providing
an “insider’s view” of the workings of the BSO. Each
session is followed by a complimentary reception
offering beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and further
time to share your thoughts with others. Admission
is free for all of these sessions, but we ask that you
please call the reservation line at 617-638-9454
to reserve your place for the date or dates you’re
planning to attend.
These seven Wednesday-evening sessions, 5:30–
6:45pm, with BSO Director of Program Publications
Marc Mandel and members of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra are designed to enhance your listening
abilities and appreciation of music by focusing on
music from the BSO’s repertoire. The specific musical
repertoire to be discussed will be posted at bso.org
3–4 weeks before each session. No prior musical
training, or attendance at any previous session,
is required, since each session is self-contained.
Wednesday, October 10: An Infinite Variety
Wednesday, October 31: Symphony vs. Concerto
Wednesday, November 14: The Orchestral Palette
Wednesday, January 9: Contrasting Voices
Wednesday, February 6: Three B’s–
Brahms, Bruckner, Bartók
Wednesday, March 13: Mozart and Wagner
Wednesday, April 10: Schubert and Mahler
bso 101: an insider’s view
These four Tuesday-evening sessions, 5:30–6:45pm,
featuring BSO musicians and administrative staff,
focus on behind-the-scenes activities at Symphony
Hall. New this season: two of the sessions will offer
round-table discussions with BSO musicians. Specific
participants and topics will be announced. Please visit
bso.org for further information.
Tuesday, October 16
Tuesday, November 20
Tuesday, January 29
Tuesday, March 5
BSO Family Concerts are designed to build a connection to the BSO, orchestral music,
the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Symphony Hall for children ages 3–8
and their families. The BSO offers three Family Concerts per year, one of which is
performed by the BSO and conducted by BSO Germeshausen Family and Youth
Concert Conductor Thomas Wilkins. The other two concerts are presented by the
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras.
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3-concert series: $60 per adult, kids under 18 free (limit four free per family)
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“from the inside out —A Musical Look at Courage, Competition, and Character”
WAGNER Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
WILLIAMS Imperial March from Star Wars
SCHUMAN “Chester” from New England Triptych
PUCCINI Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
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General Information
$20 tickets for patrons under 40
$20 tickets are available during the BSO season
for patrons under 40 years of age. Tickets are
available on a first-come, first-served basis on
both the orchestra and balcony levels. There is a
limit to one pair of tickets per performance, but
you may choose as many dates as you like! Some
blackout dates will apply. Check bso.org for more
information.
rush tickets $9
There are a limited number of Rush Tickets for BSO
subscription-series concerts on Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday evenings and Friday afternoons. Tickets
are $9 each, cash only, one to a customer, and can be
purchased at the BSO Box Office on Massachusetts
Avenue on Fridays beginning at 10am for afternoon
concerts, and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
beginning at 5pm for evening concerts. Please note:
No Rush Tickets are available on Saturday evenings.
This program is made possible through the
Richard and Claire Morse Rush Ticket Fund.
college card ($25)
The College Card is the best way for students to
experience the BSO on a regular basis. For only
$25 students can attend most BSO concerts at no
additional cost! After purchase, simply register
the card online to receive text and/or e-mail
notifications of real-time ticket availability and
special offers. Check bso.org for more information
or call 888-266-1200 to purchase.
symphony hall tours
Free tours of Symphony Hall are offered at select
dates and times during the BSO season; come explore
this remarkable building that has become a cornerstone of Boston’s historical landscape. Group tours
are available by appointment. For more details,
or to schedule a tour, please visit bso.org, email
[email protected], or call 617-638-9390 to confirm specific
dates and times. Symphony Hall Tours are a project of
the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers.
gift certificates
Gift Certificates are available in any amount and may
be used toward the purchase of tickets (subject to
availability) to any BSO or Boston Pops performance
at Symphony Hall or Tanglewood. Gift Certificates
may also be used at the Symphony Shop to purchase
merchandise, and at the Symphony Café.
symphony shop
The Symphony Shop, located in the Cohen Wing on
Huntington Avenue, is open during the BSO and Pops
season, Thursdays and Saturday 3–6pm. On days
when there is an evening concert, the shop will be
open through intermission. A satellite shop, located
on the first-balcony level outside the Cabot-Cahners
Room, is open only during concerts. Mail order is
available by calling 617-638-9383 or purchase online
at bso.org.
concert information line
Programs and artists are subject to change.
For up-to-date program information, call
617-C-O-N-C-E-R-T (266-2378).
children at symphony hall
In consideration of our patrons and artists, children
aged four or younger will not be admitted to BSO
events. Please see opposite page for information
on Youth and Family Concerts.
late arrivals
For the comfort of our artists and your fellow
patrons, late seating takes place during the first
pause in the program.
snow line
In case of inclement weather, call the BSO Snow
Line at 617-638-9495 for up-to-date information
on BSO performances. Ticket refunds will only
be issued for concerts that are canceled.
general parking information
The Symphony Garage on Westland Avenue, along
with the Prudential Center Garage (after 2pm) and
Copley Place Parking, both on Huntington Avenue,
offer discounted parking to any BSO patron with a
ticket stub. Limited street parking is available.
free community chamber concerts
Intimate chamber music performances held on
Sunday afternoons at 3pm at various locations
throughout the community, these free concerts
bring Boston Symphony members to your
neighborhood! For more information please
visit bso.org. Free admission; reservations
required. Please call 888-266-1200.
october 28, 2012 3pm
Gloucester Unitarian
Universalist Church
november 11, 2012 3pm
Tuckerman Hall,
Worcester
february 17, 2013 3pm
Milford Town Hall
march 3, 2013 3pm*
Strand Theatre,
Dorchester
march 10, 2013 3pm*
january 20, 2013 3pm
Somerville High School
JFK Museum and Library
april 28, 2013 3pm
february 10, 2013 3pm
Lawrence High School
Bethany Congregational
may 5, 2013 3pm
Church, Quincy
Chelsea High School
* These concerts will feature a performance by
community musicians beginning at 2:30pm
Tickets
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888-266-1200 (voice), or 617-638-9289 (TDD/TTY),
Monday through Friday from 10am until 6pm
and on Saturday from 12noon until 6pm.
online
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There is a $6.25 per order handling fee for
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orders by phone or online.
in person
The Symphony Hall Box Office is open from
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to 6pm on Saturdays. On concert evenings, the
Box Office remains open through intermission.
by mail
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BSO evening performances begin at 8pm. Friday-afternoon performances begin at 1:30pm. Doors
open 60 minutes prior to concert time. For the comfort of our artists and patrons, late seating will
take place during the first convenient pause in the program.
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2nd price $88
3rd price $72
4th price $48
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5th price $47
6th price $41
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