Where:
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-4511
Admission:
$30
Categories:
Art, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/88651
BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons continues the orchestra's season-long celebration of Leonard Bernstein's centennial with the composer's Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety, which features a dynamic, jazz-influenced piano part eminently suited to the style of this week's soloist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Following intermission comes Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4, which continues the BSO and Andris Nelson's multi-season survey of the composer's complete symphonies. Shostakovich completed this dark but powerfully majestic work in 1936, but fears of official Soviet condemnation following a scathing criticism of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk led him to cancel the symphony's premiere. The Fourth was first performed only in 1961.
Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 goes until 12/31
Boston