Where:
Boston Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$37.00 - $145.00
Categories:
Art, Kid Friendly, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Listing?brands=1182
Thursday, October 20, 10:30 a.m.
(High School Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, October 20
Friday, October 21, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 22
Tuesday, October 25
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
WALTON Portsmouth Point Overture
ELGAR Cello Concerto
HOLST The Planets
For this first of two weeks celebrating Charles Dutoit's 80th birthday, the eminent Swiss conductor-who is also continuing a close, multi-season collaboration with the BSO-is joined by Yo-Yo Ma for Edward Elgar's substantial and popular Cello Concerto. The program of works by three 20th-century English composers opens with William Walton's Portsmouth Point Overture, a vibrant and jazzy early work inspired by a print of colorful activity at a seaport. Written between 1914 and 1916, Gustav Holst's astrologically inspired The Planets is by far his most enduringly popular work, a series of orchestrally rich character pieces, from fleet Mercury to mysterious Neptune.