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Messiaen, Boulez and Berlioz
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  October 23, 2008 8:00 PM
  October 24, 2008 8:00 PM
  October 25, 2008 8:00 PM
[James Levine]
Boston Symphony Orchestra
October 24, 2008 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
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Featured Artists
[James Levine]
James Levine
conductor
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[Steven Ansell]
Steven Ansell
viola
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Program  Notes   Audio 
MESSIAEN
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
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BOULEZ
 Notations I-IV
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BERLIOZ
 Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra
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The Pre-Concert Talk will be given by Robert Kirzinger, BSO Publications Associate, from 6:45 PM - 7:15 PM at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. Pre-Concert Talks are sponsored by New England Coffee.

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Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Ron Della Chiesa.

Symphony+ Post-concert reception with principal violist Steve Ansell
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Messiaen with French food and wine
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Higginson Hall
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About the Music

New! Messiaen and Berlioz Featured on the BSO Classical Companion! Watch engaging biographies, historical contexts, and listening guides about Messiaen and Berlioz's life and music. more >

In this all-French program, BSO principal violist Steven Ansell is soloist in Berlioz's Harold in Italy. The title is a reference to Byron's Childe Harold. Messiaen's Et exspecto is one of the composer's profound statements of his Catholic faith, dazzlingly scored for an orchestra of winds and percussion. The orchestral versions of the first four of Boulez's Notations, originally for piano, recall both Messiaen and Debussy.
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