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Stravinsky and Mozart

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  September 26, 2009 8:00 PM
  September 29, 2009 8:00 PM
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
September 29, 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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[Grazia Doronzio]
Grazia Doronzio
soprano
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[Anke Vondung]
Anke Vondung
mezzo-soprano
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[Michael Schade]
Michael Schade
tenor
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Eric Owens
bass
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Ensembles
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
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Program  Notes   Audio 
STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms
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MOZART
Requiem
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BSO Music Director James Levine has had to withdraw from his upcoming conducting appearances, September 29, and Saturday, October 3, at Symphony Hall in Boston, and Thursday, October 1, at Carnegie Hall in New York, due to immediate unanticipated back surgery for a herniated disc.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Shi-Yeon Sung will conduct tonight’s performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mozart’s Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

The Pre-Concert Talk will be given by Marc Mandel, BSO Director of Program Publications, from 6:45PM - 7:15PM at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. Pre-Concert Talks are supported by New England Coffee.


Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty.


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About the Music

Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Shi-Yeon Sung leads two great sacred works for orchestra and chorus in this program featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Italian soprano Grazia Doronzio and German mezzo-soprano Anke Vondung make their BSO debuts in Mozart's Requiem, joining Michael Schade and Eric Owens. Mozart began his Requiem in response to a mysterious commission. It remained incomplete at his death in 1791, but at his wife Constanze's request, his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayer finished it with remarkable fidelity to the master's style. Stravinsky wrote his starkly beautiful Symphony of Psalms at the behest of Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the BSO's 50th anniversary. Symphony of Psalms was first performed in Europe, and Koussevitzky led the BSO in its American premiere in December 1930.


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