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Opening Night Gala

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Opening Night Gala
Andris Nelsons, Conductor Lang Lang, Piano Gina Alice Redlinger, Piano Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano Keila Wakao, 2023-2024 BSO Concerto Competition Winner

Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger, pianos 
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano 
Keila Wakao, violin

Carlos SIMON Festive Fanfare and Overture (world premiere; BSO co-commission)
RAVEL Tzigane, for violin and orchestra 
CANTELOUBE Selection from Songs of the Auvergne
La delaïssádo
Chut, chut
Lou coucut
Uno jionto postouro
Malurous qu'o uno fenno
Brezairola
SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals, for pianos and orchestra 
RAVEL La Valse
 

Opening Night features the first commission from our new Composer Chair, Carlos Simon, dedicated to Andris Nelson’s 10th anniversary season as music director. Our soloists for the evening include superstar mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, dazzling husband-and-wife pianists Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger, and the winner of the 2023 Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, the brilliant newcomer violinist Keila Wakao.
 

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