Saturday, November 30, 2013

BSO — 2013/11/26-30

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An unusual bit of scheduling in Thanksgiving week saw the first performance of the program on Tuesday and the last will be this evening, Sat...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

BSO — 2013/11/21-23

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This week the Boston Symphony is giving the world premiere performances of the Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra  by Marc Neikrug,  a work ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

BSO — 2013/11/14-19

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The music in tis week's BSO concerts is all from the standard orchestral repertoire: Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schumann.  The conductor, an...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

BSO — 2013/11/7-9: Belated But Still Potentially Useful

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It's embarrassing to be so late with this. It just completely slipped my mind yesterday. But there will still be opportunities to hear l...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

BSO — 2013/10/31-11/5

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Two very familiar pieces are presented this week — Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin and Elgar's "Enigma" Variations — along...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

BSO — 2013/10/24-26

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This week brings the American premiere performances of a work that was co-commissioned by the BSO — Speranza,  by Mark-Anthony Turnage,  who...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

BSO — 2013/10/17-19

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After a couple of weeks with music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Ives, and Adès (among others), our music director designate Andris Nelsons h...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

BSO — 2013/10/10-12

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This week's concerts are an interesting mixture of the traditional and the modern. One can read something of an "ocean" theme ...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

BSO — 2013/10/03-08

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This week's program includes music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich,  and Strauss.  Here's how the BSO performance detail page summarizes...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

BSO — 2013/09/26-10/01

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This week's concert has but a single work: Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection." For a brief description, with links ...