History
History of the BSO
The first Boston Symphony concert was performed under the direction of Georg Henschel in the Old Boston Music Hall
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BSO Music Directors
From the orchestra's founding in 1881 until 1918, all six of the BSO's music directors were central Europeans recruited by Henry Lee Higginson. Higginson built the BSO upon the German musical traditions he learned to love as a student in Vienna.
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Archival Collection
The Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives houses printed programs, press clippings, posters, photographs, administrative files, an extensive collection of radio broadcast tapes of concerts and commercial recordings.
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Georg Henschel, the First BSO Conductor
The premiere season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra featured twenty programs at Boston's Music Hall, presented on Saturday nights at 8PM.
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Acoustics - The Perfect Sound
Symphony Hall's continued popularity would come as no surprise to
its architects and builders. They modeled the hall after two of the
top concert halls in the world, the Leipzig Neues Gewandhaus and
the old Boston Music Hall.