2012 SESSION OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
—THE BOSTON SYMPHONY’S PRESTIGIOUS SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY—TO TAKE PLACE JUNE 25-AUGUST 19
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA TO BE FEATURED ALONG WITH THE BSO,
BOSTON POPS, JOHN WILLIAMS, KEITH LOCKHART, ANDRIS NELSONS, JAMES TAYLOR,
YO-YO MA, EMANUEL AX, PETER SERKIN, AND ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER IN THE JULY 14
GALA CONCERT CELEBRATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL
ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, AUGUST 9-13, TO PRESENT EAST COAST PREMIERE OF OLIVER KNUSSEN’S HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP!, WITH MULTI-MEDIA COMPONENT
FEATURING CLASSIC IMAGES FROM THE POPULAR MAURICE SENDAK CHILDREN’S BOOK
ADDITIONAL TMC HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
10TH ANNIVERSARY COLLABORATION WITH MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP;
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA CONCERTS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, STEFAN ASBURY, MARCELO LEHNINGER, AND RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, AS WELL AS A CONCERT FEATURING TMC WIND, BRASS, PERCUSSION, AND PIANO FELLOWS LED BY CHARLES DUTOIT; AND
TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE, THE EVER-POPULAR DAY-LONG MUSIC CELEBRATION HIGHLIGHTED BY TCHAIKOVSKY’S 1812 OVERTURE PERFORMED BY THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE BSO AND TMCO
Joining in the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Tanglewood, the famed summer music festival and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s prestigious summer music academy, will present its annual seven-week session June 25-August 19. For further information about Tanglewood—located in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts—including details about the Tanglewood Music Center, please visit www.tanglewood.org.
The focal point of the Tanglewood Music Center’s celebration of the parent festival’s 75th anniversary will be its participation in the Tanglewood 75th Celebration Gala Concert on July 14, which will also feature the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras, along with an exciting roster of guest artists. The TMC Orchestra portion of the program will feature Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. The BSO and Boston Pops will perform with Peter Serkin, longtime Tanglewood friend James Taylor, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, led by conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons.
The 2012 Festival of Contemporary Music, August 9-13, under the direction of composer Oliver Knussen, will present the east coast premiere of Mr. Knussen’s opera Higglety Pigglety Pop!, based on the award-winning children’s book by Maurice Sendak. This special performance, which will take place on August 12, will feature an interactive multi-dimensional component designed by Netia Jones, a British director and video artist who works frequently in opera and staged concerts, using video, film, and projected media in all of her work. In addition to this highly anticipated performance of Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Mr. Knussen, who celebrates his 60th birthday this season, has curated a selection of music that focuses on the works of a 20th-century Italian composer almost unknown in this country—Niccolò Castiglioni—and of four rising stars: English composers Luke Bedford and Helen Grime, and Americans Sean Shepherd and Marti Epstein, the latter presenting her new, TMC-commissioned string quartet. The 2012 FCM will also present a reprisal (August 13) of the new Gunther Schuller work commissioned by the TMC in honor of Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary, scheduled to receive its world premiere earlier in the season on July 8. Other composers to be represented during this year’s FCM include George Benjamin, Elliott Carter, John Harbison, and David Del Tredici.
Additional highlights of the TMC’s 2012 summer session include the 10th anniversary of its collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group, June 28 and 29, an intensive eight-day String Quartet Seminar, featuring music of composers from Haydn through the 20th century, a collaboration with Shakespeare & Co. and TMC Composition Fellows; and its ever-popular series of Ozawa Hall orchestral concerts, this year under the direction of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Stefan Asbury, BSO assistant conductor Marcelo Lehninger, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and with musicians from the TMC orchestra performing a program of 20th-century masterworks under the direction of Charles Dutoit. The TMCO will also participate in Tanglewood on Parade, one of Tanglewood’s most beloved traditions, on August 7.
BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
Founded in 1940 by Serge Koussevitzky (BSO music director, 1924-49), the Tanglewood Music Center is a program of advanced study for experienced young musicians – instrumentalists, singers, pianists, composers, and conductors – who have completed the majority of their formal training. In addition to high-profile orchestral performances, the Tanglewood Music Center Fellows also participate in chamber music and vocal recital programs, and master classes and coaching sessions led by some of the preeminent artists of our time. More than half the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra also teach at the TMC each summer. The Tanglewood Music Center also offers programs for orchestral librarians, audio engineers, piano technicians, and publications professionals.
DETAILS OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER SUMMER SESSION, JUNE 25-AUG. 19
FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, AUGUST 9–13
FCM kicks off Thursday, August 9, at 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall with a program of chamber and chamber-orchestra music including Luke Bedford’s witty Or Voit Tout En Aventure—six songs for soprano and 16 instrumentalists based on mediaeval texts. Also on the program are Harrison Birtwistle’s toccata Cantus Iambeus; Niccolo Castiglioni’s breathless set of variations Quickly; and Sean Shepherd’s colorfully waxing-and-waning These Particular Circumstances.
On Friday, August 10, the festival turns its attention to piano music with an afternoon Ozawa Hall recital by virtuoso and acclaimed new-music specialist Gloria Cheng. In addition to music by Knussen and Birtwistle, Ms. Cheng performs works by their fellow Englishmen George Benjamin and Bernard Rands, as well as music by Boston-based composer and longtime BSO collaborator John Harbison.
On Saturday, August 11, at 6 p.m., the Tanglewood Music Center’s weekly prelude concert, held in Ozawa Hall before the evening’s BSO concert in the Shed, will feature little-known and rarely played works by Charles Ives, which represent an amazing variety of styles and genres. Gunther Schuller, who helped rediscover the works in the Library of Congress, will conduct the program.
At 10 a.m. on Sunday, August 12, the annual Fromm Concert at Tanglewood comes to Ozawa Hall, featuring at its heart the world premiere of Boston-based composer Marti Epstein’s new TMC-commissioned string quartet. Also on the program are Birtwistle’s Dinah and Nick’s Love Song, Castiglioni’s Tropi, Elliott Carter’s Double Trio, for violin, cello, trumpet, trombone, piano, and percussion (2011), and Shepherd’s Quartet for Oboe and Strings. A work by Helen Grime makes its first appearance with Seven Pierrot Miniatures—inspired by the archetypical commedia dell’arte character of its title as well as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire—on a program also including American composer David Del Tredici’s very first composition, Soliloquy (1958).
Stefan Asbury conducts a highlight of FCM 2012 on Sunday, August 12, at 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall, with a complete concert performance of Knussen’s one-act opera Higglety Pigglety Pop!, based on Sendak’s children’s book of the same name. The Tanglewood performance—the work’s east-coast premiere—will feature animated projections of the author’s drawings, “performed live by the animator [Netia Jones] so that they have the flexibility and spontaneity of the live performance, enhancing and supporting the music, following the conductor and the live performers, while offering an exciting visual narrative.” The world premiere of Higglety Pigglety Pop! took place in October 1984 at Glyndebourne and the US premiere took place at Los Angeles Music Center in June 1990. The August 12 program also includes Castiglioni’s crystalline Inverno In-Ver.
The 2012 Festival of Contemporary Music concludes Monday, August 13, at 8 p.m. with The Margaret Lee Crofts Concert in Ozawa Hall, conducted by Mr. Knussen himself and TMC Conducting Felllows, and featuring full orchestra as well as piano soloist Peter Serkin. With the exception of a reprise of the new Schuller work commissioned by the TMC in honor of the Festival’s 75th anniversary – originally performed on the TMCO’s opening program on July 8 – the program presents music by composers heard in earlier concerts: Bedford’s dreamlike Outblaze the Sky, George Benjamin’s piano concertino Duet, Del Tredici’s Alice in Wonderland-inspired Happy Voices, and Grime’s joyous but fragile Everyone Sang.
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA CONCERTS IN THE KOUSSEVITZY MUSIC SHED
The TMCO will perform during the Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration Gala on July 14, also featuring the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras. Guest artists to be featured with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra include Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. The BSO and Boston Pops portions of the program will feature Peter Serkin, longtime Tanglewood friend James Taylor, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and other special guests, led by conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons. This program will be made available to a worldwide audience through a series of international broadcasts, details of which will be announced at a later date.
The TMCO will also participate in Tanglewood on Parade, one of Tanglewood’s most beloved traditions, on August 7. The day-long event, featuring small ensemble performances throughout the day, culminates in an extended evening concert featuring the festival’s orchestras—the BSO and Boston Pops, in addition to the TMCO—and conductors Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Stéphane Denève in his Tanglewood debut, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams. The program will include Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and recent film scores by Mr. Williams, as well as the traditional TOP finale, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, featuring both the BSO and TMCO.
The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s 2012 season comes to a close with The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert in the Koussevitzky Music Shed on Sunday, August 19, at 2:30 p.m. Tanglewood veteran conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads the orchestra’s farewell performance. On the first half of the program, Israeli-American violinist Gil Shaham is featured in Beethoven’s legendary Violin Concerto, and the concert concludes with Bartók’s most famous work, the Concerto for Orchestra.
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA CONCERTS IN OZAWA HALL
JULY 8: MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA AND TMC CONDUCTING FELLOWS LEAD TMCO IN RESPIGHI, PROKOFIEV, DVORÁK, AND NEW WORK BY GUNTHER SCHULLER
The talented and dynamic young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra open the ensemble’s 2012 season in Seiji Ozawa Hall on Sunday, July 8, at 8 p.m. Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya—currently music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra—and TMC Conducting Fellows are on the podium, and the wide-ranging program of late-Romantic and 20th-century music includes Respighi’s sun-drenched Fountains of Rome, selections from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, Dvořák’s rarely performed overture In Nature’s Realm, and the world premiere of a new work, commissioned by for the TMC in honor of the Tanglewood Music Festival’s 75th anniversary, by eminent American composer Gunther Schuller. Mr. Schuller served on the TMC faculty from 1963 to 1984, the last fourteen of these years as its Artistic Director. This new work will also be performed on August 13 during the Festival of Contemporary Music.
JULY 16: BSO ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR MARCELO LEHNINGER AND TMC FELLOWS CONDUCT BRAHMS, SCHUBERT AND STRAUSS
The TMCO returns to Ozawa Hall on Monday, July 16, at 8 p.m. for a program including works by Brahms and Schubert, led by the TMC Conducting Fellows, and Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra led by BSO assistant conductor Marcelo Lehninger. The program opens with Brahms’s Tragic Overture, which was composed over the course of just a few months in 1880 and is as turbulent as its title would suggest, packing an impressive amount of angst into its 13-minute duration; also on the program is Schubert’s beloved Symphony No. 8, Unfinished, the most intriguing and impressive of the composer’s many works left incomplete at the time of his tragically early death. Mr. Lehninger then leads the TMCO in Strauss’s famous Nietzsche-inspired tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra.
JULY 23: STEFAN ASBURY AND TMC CONDUCTING FELLOWS CONDUCT IVES AND STRAVINSKY
Maestro Stefan Asbury, a leading advocate for contemporary music and chief conductor of the Noords Nederlands Orkest, leads the TMCO on Monday, July 23, in an 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall program featuring exclusively 20th-century music. American pianist and longtime Tanglewood guest Emanuel Ax joins the orchestra at the heart of the program for Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (1942), a lyrical masterpiece that employs the composer’s famous 12-tone system. The concert opens with Ives’s evocative Three Places in New England (including a movement inspired by Stockbridge, Mass., just down the road from Tanglewood) and closes with Stravinsky’s kaleidoscopic and virtuosic ballet Petrushka.
JULY 30: CHARLES DUTOIT LEADS TMCO MUSICIANS AND TFC IN PROGRAM FEATURING WORKS BY STRAVINSKY AND MESSIAEN
On July 30 at 8 p.m., wind, brass, and percussion players from the TMCO and TMC pianists take on another all–20th-century program—this time one with a distinct French accent—and welcome leading maestro Charles Dutoit, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and TMC Vocal and Conducting Fellows. Mr. Dutoit, a specialist in French and Russian repertoire, conducts the orchestra in Stravinsky’s hybrid ballet-cantata Les Noces, a work by a Russian composer written and premiered in Paris. Also on the program are Varèse’s Intégrales, a work for winds and percussion that focuses on the way instrumental timbres blend and contrast, and Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques, which, like much of the composer’s work, was inspired by and contains vivid representations of bird song.
ADDITIONAL TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER HIGHLIGHTS, JUNE 25-AUGUST 19
In additional to the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra concerts on July 8, 16, 23, 30, and August 13 and 19, the Tanglewood Music Center’s 2012 season includes the annual collaboration between the exuberant Mark Morris Dance Group and musicians from the TMC on June 28 and 29, performing three of Mark Morris’s works: Something Lies Beyond the Scene, set to Walton’s Façade, An Entertainment, featuring as narrators both Mr. Morris himself, and Phyllis Curtin, soprano and chairman of the TMC’s Vocal Arts Program; Rock of Ages, set to the second movement of Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat; and Festival Dance, set to Hummel’s Piano Trio No. 5 in E. In addition to the Mark Morris Dance Group appearances in June, Mark Morris will lead a series of class for Vocal Fellows on stage skills and movement.
All violinists, violists, and cellists begin the summer with the eight-day String Quartet Seminar, an intensive workshop that explores this repertoire from Haydn through the 20th century. Participants concentrate exclusively on the study of pre-assigned quartets during this period; master classes are held throughout the seminar. The seminar concludes with the String Quartet Marathons on July 1 at 8 p.m. and July 2 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; all concerts are in Seiji Ozawa Hall.
As part of her teaching activities this summer, Stephanie Blythe will focus on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, culminating in a concert of song and poetry with TMC Vocal Fellows on Wednesday, August 15, at 8 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall.
For the second year, the TMC will invite a number of young conductors to come to Tanglewood for a week as guests of the conducting program. These conductors will take classes with TMC conducting coordinator Stefan Asbury, and will observe Tanglewood Music Center and BSO rehearsals and concerts, and the work of the current TMC Conducting Fellows. The week gives the conductors a better sense of the Tanglewood Music Center, and allows the conducting faculty to become more familiar with these potential TMC Fellows for future seasons.
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FACULTY AND BSO INVOLVEMENT
The Tanglewood Music Center faculty comprises BSO musicians and conductors along with distinguished guest conductors, composers, instrumentalists, and vocalists. The 2012 faculty includes Stefan Asbury, coordinator of the conducting program; Phyllis Curtin, vocal studies program chairman; mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe; soprano Lucy Shelton; pianists Emanuel Ax, Steven Drury, Claude Frank, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn; violinist Pamela Frank; composers John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, and George Benjamin; and visiting artist Mark Morris, among many others.
In addition, more than half the members of the BSO, including concertmaster Malcolm Lowe, will again participate in TMC teaching, coaching, and curriculum preparation this season. The 2012 TMC section representatives are Mark McEwen, oboe; Edward Gazouleas, viola; Jessica Zhou, principal harp; Mihail Jojatu, cello; Ronan Lefkowitz, violin; Tom Martin, clarinet; Thomas Rolfs, principal trumpet; Elizabeth Rowe, principal flute; Toby Oft, principal trombone; Mike Roylance, principal tuba; Richard Sebring, associate principal horn; J. William Hudgins, percussion; Todd Seeber, double bass; and Richard Svoboda, principal bassoon. Principal bassist Edwin Barker is the Instrumental and Orchestral Studies chairman.
DESCRIPTION OF TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
Participants in the TMC Fellowship Program are experienced young musicians who have generally completed the majority of their formal training. The sole criterion for admission is musical excellence. The program is open to instrumentalists, singers and vocal pianists, composers, and conductors. Those accepted into the program receive fellowships that cover TMC tuition, room, and board.
Instrumental Fellows all play in the TMC Orchestra and participate in master classes with the TMC’s distinguished faculty. In addition, all Fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center study and perform chamber music, a program coordinated by cellist Norman Fischer, throughout each season. TMC chamber music concerts take place every Sunday morning in Seiji Ozawa Hall, starting this year on July 8. On Saturday evenings TMC Fellows perform chamber music Prelude Concerts at 6 p.m., before the BSO evening performances; additional instrumental and vocal chamber music concerts are scheduled throughout the season.
The TMC Conducting Program gives several young conductors each year the opportunity to work with internationally recognized maestros; podium time in front of an extraordinarily talented group of colleagues, leading the TMCO and smaller ensembles; and the chance to study the technique of many distinguished artists working with the BSO in rehearsals, master classes, and performances.
Fellows in the Vocal Arts Program take part in performances and master classes throughout the summer in opera, art song, and vocal chamber music, and perform with the TMC Orchestra. Singers and pianists will participate in master classes taught by Stephanie Blythe, Martin Katz, and Hakan Hagegaard, among others.
The TMC Composition Program, chaired by John Harbison and coordinated by Michael Gandolfi, balances intensive on-site writing projects with classes, seminars, and discussions led by distinguished composers from a wide range of aesthetic perspectives. Each composer has several performances of his or her works during the summer.
The TMC also has programs for Orchestra Library Fellows, who work with some of the world’s most important conductors, preparing materials for the TMCO and for conducting and instrumental classes; Audio Engineering Fellows, who assist the Audio Engineering department in a broad spectrum of activities, and have an opportunity to learn and refine audio skills while working in a truly world-class musical environment; Piano Technician apprentices, who, working side-by-side with Tanglewood’s piano technicians, practice their craft by tending to over 70 Steinway pianos on the Tanglewood grounds; and a Publication Fellow, who gains hands-on experience in the creation of printed concert programs and the writing and/or editing of program notes for TMC Orchestra concerts and select chamber music concerts.
TMC TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for TMC Orchestra Concerts (July 8, 16, 23, 30, and August 19) and Festival of Contemporary Music events (August 9-13) are available in advance online at www.tanglewood.org or by calling SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200 or 617-266-1200. For all other TMC concerts, tickets ($11) are available one hour prior to concert start time at the Ozawa Hall Box Office.
HISTORY OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
Since its start as the Berkshire Music Center in 1940, the Tanglewood Music Center has been closely tied to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its players, and its music directors. Serge Koussevitzky, who headed the BSO from 1924 to 1949, founded the school with the aim of creating a premier music academy where young instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, and composers could sharpen their skills under the tutelage of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and other world-class artists, with the resources of a great symphony at their disposal. To this end, he also enlisted some of the day’s most important composer-teachers as faculty members, a tradition distinguished by the presence of such longtime TMC faculty as Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith. Koussevitzky helped develop that dream until 1950, a year after his retirement as BSO music director. Charles Munch, his successor in that position, took over the TMC from 1951 through 1962, working with Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland to shape the school’s programs. In 1963, new BSO Music Director Erich Leinsdorf took over the school’s reins, returning to Koussevitzky’s hands-on leadership approach while restoring a renewed emphasis on contemporary music. In 1970, three years before his appointment as BSO Music Director, Seiji Ozawa became head of the BSO’s programs at Tanglewood, while Gunther Schuller was appointed to lead the TMC and Leonard Bernstein became general advisor. Leon Fleisher served as Artistic Director of the TMC from 1985 to 1997. In November 1997, Ellen Highstein became director of the TMC, a position she holds today.
In addition to Mr. Ozawa, prominent alumni of the TMC include Claudio Abbado, the late Luciano Berio, the late Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Phyllis Curtin, David Del Tredici, Christoph von Dohnányi, the late Jacob Druckman, the late Lukas Foss, Michael Gandolfi, John Harbison, Oliver Knussen, Lorin Maazel, Wynton Marsalis, Zubin Mehta, Sherrill Milnes, Osvaldo Golijov, Leontyne Price, Ned Rorem, Bright Sheng, Sanford Sylvan, Cheryl Studer, Michael Tilson Thomas, Augusta Read Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, the late Shirley Verrett, and David Zinman.
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD, THE BSO’S SUMMER HOME SINCE 1937
One of the most popular and acclaimed music festivals in the world, Tanglewood—the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home since 1937—is located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills between Lenox and Stockbridge, MA. With an average annual attendance of more than 300,000 visitors each season, Tanglewood has a $60 million impact on the Berkshire economy each summer. Tanglewood presents orchestra concerts by the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and visiting ensembles, featuring many of the greatest classical musicians of our time; recital and chamber music concerts in the intimate setting of Ozawa Hall; programs highlighting the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center; performances by some of today’s leading popular artists; and a season-ending Labor Day Weekend festival. Tanglewood is family-friendly, with free lawn tickets available for children and young people age 17 and under, a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn tickets for college and graduate students, and a variety of special programs for children, including Kids Corner, Watch and Play, and the annual Family Concert, this year to take place Saturday, August 25. Tanglewood is also the home of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s
preeminent summer music academy for the advanced training of young professional musicians, and Days in the Arts, a multi-cultural arts-immersion program that gives 400 fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders from communities across Massachusetts the opportunity to explore the arts throughout each week-long session of the summer. These are just two of the BSO’s many educational and outreach activities, for which more information is available at www.bso.org—the largest and most visited orchestral website in the country, receiving about 7.5 million visitors annually and generating over $70 million in revenue since its launch in 1996. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is online at www.bso.org. Music lovers can follow the BSO on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bostonsymphony or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bostonsymphony.
All programs and artists are subject to change. For further information, call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is on the Internet at www.bso.org.
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