On Sunday, October 1, at 3 p.m., the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, in partnership with the City of Boston, will present a special free concert in Boston's Franklin Park.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra opens their summer season in Tanglewood on July 7 at 8PM when Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" with Malin Christensson, Bernarda Fink, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Franz Joseph Haydn and Gustav Mahler defined the genre of the symphony during their respective eras- Haydn as one of its originators in the late 18th-century Classical era, and Mahler as revitalizer and innovator at the end of the Romantic era.