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Spring 2022 schedule
May 1, 2022
ALL-STRAUSS PROGRAM
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten
Symphonia domestica
May 8, 2022
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Blaise Déjardin, cello
RICHARD STRAUSS "Dreaming by the Fireside" from Four Symphonic Interludes
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS First Cello Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony
May 15, 2022
(recorded on Oct. 9, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Michelle and Christina Naughton, pianos
RICHARD STRAUSS Love Scene’ from Feuersnot
RICHARD STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
MOZART Concerto in E-flat for two pianos, K.365
May 22, 2022
(recorded on Oct. 23, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Sofia GUBAIDULINA The Light of the End
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3
May 29, 2022
(recorded on Oct. 30, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Victor Wooten, electric bass
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Suite from the ballet Hiawatha Victor
WOOTEN La Lección Tres, for electric bass and orchestra
ELLINGTON Suite from The River
June 5, 2022
(recorded on Nov. 6, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Beatrice Rana, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
June 12, 2022
(recorded on Nov. 13, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Roderick Cox, conductor
William R. Hudgins, clarinet
MOZART Clarinet Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish
June 19, 2022
(recorded on Nov. 20, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Jörg WIDMANN Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI), for trumpet and orchestra
(American premiere; BSO co-commission)
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
June 26, 2022
(recorded on Nov. 27, 2021, at Symphony Hall)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Serenade No. 2
Symphony No. 1
July 3, 2022
(recorded on Jan. 15, 2022, at Symphony Hall)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Augusta READ THOMAS Dance Foldings
(American premiere)
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
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Composer Liliya Ugay's experience of Puerto Rico exists only in her imagination. She had originally planned to travel there prior to the pandemic, but has only gotten as close as Florida. Her composition focuses on the idea of the "Island of Enchantment." -
Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.
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This Juneteenth, pianist Lara Downes remembers the freedom that has been hard fought and hard won.
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At a protest centered around the death of George Floyd in 2020, composer J.J. Peña Aguayo saw bomba musicians leading the way.
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Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was also an author, scholar and activist who died in a Pennsylvania prison in June 2018, at age 85. He’d served nearly 50 years of a life sentence for a murder he always insisted he did not commit.
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Musicians who perform live have had to reconsider how to make a living now that the COVID-19 pandemic has rewritten the rules of how people gather in public. Three performers based in western Massachusetts talk about what's changed and where to go from here.
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A 30-year-old man who was killed last weekend at the Saga Lounge in Springfield is being remembered as a star in the city’s rap scene.
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Like many Puerto Ricans living away, composer Omar Surillo can’t visit home as often as he’d like. But his music brings memories of home and childhood to the listener.
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The rhythms of the bomba, Puerto Rico’s traditional dance music, are the underpinnings of composer Johanny Navarro’s work, "Belén: Un Canto Sagrado a mis Ancestros" (“A Sacred Chant to my Ancestors”).
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Composer Christian Quiñones, who participated in El Puerto Rico IV, said his music channeled a dichotomy between beauty and the fear of letting go.
