Concerts

Concert
Opening Night at Symphony
All-Bernstein Program
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Frederica Von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Julia Bullock, soprano
Symphony Hall, Boston
September 22, 2017
A wonderful, lively tribute to Leonard Bernstein as composer kicks off the season celebrating the centennial of his birth.

Concert
Composer, lyricist and honoree: Stephen Sondheim
Pianist and host: Steven Blier
New York Festival of Song
Artistic Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett
Gala event chairs: Hal Prince and Jamie Bernstein
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
April 19, 2017, 7pm
A wonderful array of Sondheim songs played and sung expertly, and introduced with brilliance, warmth and wit by pianist and artistic director Steven Blier.

Concert
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)
Seven Studies on Themes of
Paul Klee (1959)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, “Eroica”
Symphony Hall, Boston
Jazzy but precise Schuller, delicate and melliflous Mozart and carefully choreographed Beethoven.

Concert
Conductor: Juanjo Mena
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall
January 21, 2017
An evening featuring celebrated violinist Gidon Kremer playing a little known concerto by a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, sandwiched between two great works by Prokoviev and Tchaikovsky.