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Sibelius, Grieg, Copland and Bartók

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  April 9, 2009 8:00 PM
  April 10, 2009 1:30 PM
  April 11, 2009 8:00 PM
  April 14, 2009 8:00 PM
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
April 14, 2009 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
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Featured Artists
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Shi-Yeon Sung
conductor
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Nelson Freire
piano
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Program  Notes   Audio 
SIBELIUS
The Bard
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GRIEG
Piano Concerto
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COPLAND
Suite from Appalachian Spring
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BARTÓK
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
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"Whatever symbolic importance the event carried, it did not seem to weigh on Sung, who radiated calm and confidence on the podium. She conducts with controlled and relatively restrained gestures that nevertheless convey a lot of information to the players, as last night's very successful concert showed." - Boston Globe

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

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About the Music

Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, in her second season as an assistant conductor of the BSO, makes her subscription series debut with this thoughtfully conceived program of music from four countries. The eminent Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire joins Ms. Sung and the BSO for the Norwegian Edvard Grieg's popular and Romantic Piano Concerto. Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's short, meditative tone poem The Bard contrasts with the effusive openness of Aaron Copland's very American suite from Appalachian Spring. Closing the concert is the suite from Bartók's lurid, exotic ballet The Miraculous Mandarin.
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