The Pre-Concert Talk will be given by Marc Mandel, Director of Program Publications, from 6:45 PM - 7:15 PM at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. Pre-Concert Talks are sponsored by New England Coffee.
Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Ron Della Chiesa.
Brian Bell with Sir André Previn Sir André Previn's subscription concerts open with a world premiere: a BSO commission written by himself titled Owls. Though he had just a few minutes to look at the score before speaking with the composer last August, Brian Bell couldn't pass up the opportunity to speak to André Previn about it.
CD Signing with Gil Shaham and Post-Concert Reception! If you are attending the performance on October 2, Gil Shaham will be signing CDs in the corridor of the Symphony Shop. Also there will be a post-concert reception.
About the Music
Sir André Previn returns to the Boston Symphony podium to conduct a new work of his own commissioned by the BSO, a tone poem called Owls. The piece is an orchestral nocturne, mostly ruminative but also suggesting the night's unwitnessed activity. Violinist Gil Shaham plays Stravinsky's neoclassical Violin Concerto. Beethoven's high-spirited, gregarious Symphony No. 4 closes the program.
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