BSO — 2011/10/13-18

As usual, we begin with an excerpt from the BSO's website describing this weeks program.

Dvořák and Bartók Buy Tickets $30.00  - $110.00  Related performances in this program   October 13, 2011 8:00 PM October 14, 2011 1:30 PM October 15, 2011 8:00 PM October 18, 2011 8:00 PM Boston Symphony Orchestra  October 13, 2011 8:00 PM Symphony Hall Boston, Massachusetts Share this event:     There is a $6.25 per-ticket service fee for this event.

Featured Artists    Juanjo Mena  conductor   Yo-Yo Ma  cello Program  Notes   Audio  DVOŘÁKCello Concerto BARTÓKThe Wooden Prince Audio Concert Preview by Marc Mancel, narrated by Eleanor McGourty. About the Music Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, masterful in any repertoire, performs the powerful Cello Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, a piece the Czech composer began during his sojourn in the United States in the mid-1890s. Making his subscription series debut leading Ma and the orchestra in this program is Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, who led works of Berg, Strauss, and Mahler in his BSO debut at Tanglewood in July 2010. He also conducts a rarity, Bartók’s score to the folk-tale ballet The Wooden Prince, one of the composer’s three great, orchestrally thrilling stage works from the 1910s.

I have tickets for the Thursday performance, and I'll probably listen on Saturday until my brother calls. Obviously, we can expect Yo-Yo Ma to do very well with the Dvořák concerto. Dvořák isn't one of my favorite composers, but he's okay. Bartók is even less of a favorite, but I don't think I've ever heard "The Wooden Prince," so it should at least be interesting as a new experience. The conductor is also unknown to me, but from what the BSO blurb says, at least he has familiarity with the era from which the pieces come.

The usual information applies with respect to concert time and pre-concert show.

There is a new development, however, with respect to availability. Not only is WCRB rebroadcasting and streaming the Saturday concert on Sunday afternoon, they're also making it available "on demand" through their website for some time (they say two weeks minimum) after the Sunday rebroadcast. The website isn't the easiest I've ever seen to navigate, but I managed to find last week's concert "on demand" and I'm sure you can too. (That reminds me, I should probably post about that concert, to encourage you to listen.)