BSO | Tchaikovsky Manfred and Schumann Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim
Mar
19
to Mar 21

BSO | Tchaikovsky Manfred and Schumann Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim

Vaulted to worldwide prominence as the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yunchan Lim returns to Symphony Hall for Robert Schumann’s lyrical, introspective Piano Concerto, written for his wife Clara, one of the most admired pianists of the 19th century. Inspired throughout his life by literary sources, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Manfred — actually a four-movement symphony — based on Lord Byron’s Gothic verse play of the same name about a nihilistic nobleman wandering the Alps in search of meaning.

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BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 9 and Three Scenes from Nixon in China with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson
Mar
26
to Mar 28

BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 9 and Three Scenes from Nixon in China with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson

John Adams’ Nixon in China redefined opera by taking as its subject matter recent world events. Opera luminaries Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming bring excerpts from this groundbreaking work to the Symphony Hall stage. Nixon in China established Adams as the most significant opera composer of the past 50 years. Composed while the Czech Antonín Dvořák was living in the U.S., the New World Symphonybursts with sweeping melodies, blending Bohemian soul with the spirit of America and incorporating the sounds and songs of both worlds into the iconic and oft-quoted work we know today.

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BSO | Where Words End: Music and the Natural World
Apr
2
to Apr 4

BSO | Where Words End: Music and the Natural World

Andris Nelsons leads this program featuring Tokyo-born rising star Mao Fujita as soloist in Mozart’s popular Piano Concerto No. 21, which he composed in 1785. Finland’s greatest composer, Jean Sibelius, infused his own music with Finnish musical and cultural traditions, even in his apparently abstract symphonies. Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen, a native of Lapland near the Arctic Circle, composes music influenced by the region’s distinctive landscape and culture. Her BSO co-commissioned Day Night Day employs two traditional Sámi melodies.

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BSO | Grieg Piano Concerto with Lang Lang and Dvořák Symphony No. 9
Apr
8
to Apr 10

BSO | Grieg Piano Concerto with Lang Lang and Dvořák Symphony No. 9

Superstar pianist Lang Lang joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO for the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s perennially popular Piano Concerto, which combines Romantic-era passion with elements of Norwegian traditional music. Similarly inspired by folk music, Antonín Dvořák was living in the U.S. when he composed the New World Symphony, which bursts with sweeping melodies blending Bohemian soul with the spirit of America and incorporates the sounds and songs of both worlds into the iconic and oft-quoted work we know today.

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A Far Cry | Side by Side
Jan
31
7:30 PM19:30

A Far Cry | Side by Side

Great music isn’t just taught—it’s shared with the next generation side by side.

In A Far Cry’s annual Side by Side, the Criers partner with young musicians from Project STEP and New England Conservatory for a joyful performance that celebrates the next generation of artists and the mentors, teachers, families, and friends who lift them up. Students participate in a radical side-by-side rehearsal and performance experience as co-equals with the Criers, empowering young artists through their democratic model of music making.

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BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández
Nov
29
8:00 PM20:00

BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández

Award-winning Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández returns to Symphony Hall to perform one of the most beloved works in the cello repertoire. Written while the composer was living and teaching in the U.S., Dvořák’s Cello Concerto weaves a virtuosic solo line into a rich orchestral tapestry that both pays tribute to and draws inspiration from his Bohemian homeland. The Eighth Symphony is a similarly folk-inspired work, warm and full of charm. Filled with folk dance rhythms and unexpected harmonic shifts, it captures the composer’s deep connection to his home.

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BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández
Nov
28
1:30 PM13:30

BSO | Dvořák Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto with Pablo Ferrández

Award-winning Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández returns to Symphony Hall to perform one of the most beloved works in the cello repertoire. Written while the composer was living and teaching in the U.S., Dvořák’s Cello Concerto weaves a virtuosic solo line into a rich orchestral tapestry that both pays tribute to and draws inspiration from his Bohemian homeland. The Eighth Symphony is a similarly folk-inspired work, warm and full of charm. Filled with folk dance rhythms and unexpected harmonic shifts, it captures the composer’s deep connection to his home.

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Smithsonian Academy Orchestra on Tour
Apr
22
to Apr 26

Smithsonian Academy Orchestra on Tour

Founded in 2024, the Smithsonian Academy Orchestra is a project of the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC directed by Kenneth Slowik. Modeled after Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, their repertoire ranges from Bach to Schoenberg performed on period instruments. Hear them perform works by Greig, Bruckner, and Dvorak on their April Tour with performances in Boston, Great Barrington, New Jersey, and Washington DC! SAO concerts are free and open to the public due to the generous support of The Honorable John FW Rogers and Goldman Sachs.

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