The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons. Photo by Robert Torres.
In Wednesday’s (4/8) Boston Globe, A.Z. Madonna writes, “The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced the music it will play during [Music Director Andris Nelsons’] final season at Symphony Hall … He is slated to lead 15 of 25 subscription programs. The season also includes four themed festivals, a programming framework that has been central to the tenure of president and CEO Chad Smith…. January will be dedicated to Tchaikovsky, with the orchestra presenting all six of the Russian Romantic composer’s symphonies … The event concludes with concert performances of the opera ‘The Queen of Spades’ … The Latvian conductor will also conduct Stravinsky’s three ballet scores … First will be ‘The Rite of Spring’ on a program with Unsuk Chin’s Trumpet Concerto…. [Nelsons’] subscription programs includes major works by Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky, as well as the posthumous world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s ‘Prologue’; … the United States premiere of Francisco Coll’s piano concerto featuring Kirill Gerstein; and Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite for violin and cello … The first [festival] … focuses on ‘technology and our humanity,’ with its flagship piece being the world premiere of Tod Machover’s electronics-enhanced orchestral piece ‘already and not yet’ … The other fall festival … juxtaposes Haydn’s oratorio ‘The Creation’ with the world premiere of composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s ‘Creation’ … The Boston Pops offer … programs during the season, led by Pops conductor Keith Lockhart.”
