2023-24 BSO Season

Seong-Jin Cho & The Rite of Spring

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Seong-Jin Cho, piano

Tania LEÓN Stride
RAVEL Piano Concerto for the left hand
Intermission
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

This week’s performances of Tania León Stride are supported in part by income from the Morton Margolis fund in the BSO’s endowment.
Thursday evening's performance by Seong-Jin Cho is supported by the Nathan R. Miller Family Guest Artist Fund.

Tania León’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Stride draws on her Cuban heritage and her long association with dance to create music rich with rhythmic vitality and scintillating instrumental colors. Superstar Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho plays Maurice Ravel’s dramatic Piano Concerto for the left hand, originally composed for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his arm during World War I. Closing the concert is and one of the most influential pieces in history: Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring, a work of primal power.

Robert Kirzinger, BSO Director of Program Publications, will give the Friday Preview on January 12 at 12:15pm. Admission included with ticket.

Thursday's concert will end around 9:15pm, Friday's concert will end around 3:15pm, and Saturday's concert will end around 9:45pm.

Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 7:30pm EST (Past)

Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 1:30pm EST (Past)

The Marie L. Audet Gillet Concert

Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 8:00pm EST (Past)

The Fernand Gillet Concert

Performance Details

Jan 11, 2024, 7:30pm EST

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Stride for orchestra

Tania León

The Cuban-born American composer, pianist, and conductor Tania León won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her orchestra work Stride.

Piano Concerto in D for the left hand

Maurice Ravel

Ravel rightly considered this, his last completed large-scale work, a supreme piece of illusion. Who can tell, just from listening, the nature of the self-imposed restriction under which he completed his commission?

The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

With his third ballet, Le Sacre du printemps, Stravinsky secured his place as the foremost composer of his day. He took two years to prepare his daring score, following a vision the composer had in 1911 of a young girl in pagan Russia, dancing herself to a ritual death surrounded by village elders.