In photo: Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, March 2019. Photo by Winslow Townson
“The novel coronavirus outbreak in China may have grounded the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s planned tour of East Asia this month, but … players are heading out into the community for a series of pop-up chamber concerts,” writes Zoë Madonna in Thursday’s (2/6) Boston Globe. “The full orchestra also will offer a free ‘Concert for Our City’ at Symphony Hall Feb. 16 led by BSO youth and family concerts conductor Thomas Wilkins [featuring] selections by Tchaikovsky, Ginastera, Brahms, and George Walker. In addition, Chinese composer Huang Ruo will be the featured vocal soloist in selections from his own ‘Folksongs for Orchestra,’ and Sphinx Competition-winning cellist Sterling Elliott will take center stage for a movement of Dvořák’s classic Cello Concerto. The pop-up chamber concerts, which will take place at local organizations including schools, shelter facilities, and hospitals, are not open to the public. However, listeners can join the Boston Symphony Chamber Players at WGBH’s cozy Fraser Performance Studio for a concert and conversation hosted by WCRB’s Brian McCreath (Feb. 13)…. BSO players will also offer a free pop-up concert for the public at the Linde Center for Music and Learning at the Tanglewood campus in Lenox (Feb. 9).”
