The Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to Symphony Hall this week to begin the second half of the season, with cellist Pieter Wispelwey (right) and conductor Bernard Labadie performing Mozart’s Chaconne from Idomeneo, Hayden’s Cello Concerto No. 2, and Handel’s Water Music.
You ask, What does this have to do with me? It's 2009, my condo mortgage is upside down and inside out, and I'm afraid that meeting with the boss scheduled for Friday afternoon is going to end with me in the unemployment line.
Well cheer up, bucko, the BSO would like me to remind you that if you're under 40, you can get tickets for a bunch of upcoming Symphony programs for only $20 a whack. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, and it's cheaper than the Glock you were thinking of buying to take out the boss and the brokerage staff who invested your entire nest egg with Bernie Madoff.
Details and a complete schedule after the jump.
The program was first announced in November. We'll speculate that, given the downturn in attendance for the arts of all kinds in recent weeks and months, the BSO feared some of the seats might go unfilled. Plus it's part of their ongoing attempt to get young people - which in the classical music world is defined as under 40 - into the hall. A limited number of the $20 tickets is available for each program. Tickets may be purchased by phone through SymphonyCharge (617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200), in person at the Symphony Hall Box Office (301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston), or online through the BSO’s website (www.bso.org). Eligible patrons may purchase up to two tickets per show and must provide proof of age in order to receive the discount. All programs and artists are subject to change.
Concerts Available
for $20 Tickets Thursday,
January 15, 8 p.m. Friday,
January 16, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
January 17, 8 p.m. BOSTON BERNARD
LABADIE, conductor * PIETER
WISPELWEY, cello MOZART Chaconne from Idomeneo HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 2 in D HANDEL Water
Music _________________________ Thursday,
January 22, 8 p.m. Saturday,
January 24, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
January 27, 8 p.m. BOSTON KURT
MASUR, conductor ALL-MENDELSSOHN
PROGRAM Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)) Overture Symphony
No. 3, Scottish Symphony
No. 4, Italian _________________________ Thursday,
January 29, 8 p.m. Saturday,
January 31, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
February 3, 8 p.m. BOSTON JAMES
LEVINE, conductor BARBARA
FRITTOLI, soprano (Amelia Grimaldi) MARCELLO
GIORDANI, tenor (Gabriele Adorno) JOSÉ
VAN DAM, baritone (Simon Boccanegra) JAMES
MORRIS, bass (Jacopo Fiesco) TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL
CHORUS, VERDI Simon
Boccanegra Concert performances,
sung in Italian with supertitles _________________________ Thursday,
February 5, 8 p.m. Friday,
February 6, 8 p.m. Saturday,
February 7, 8 p.m. BOSTON JAMES
LEVINE, conductor BARBARA
FRITTOLI, soprano MOZART “Bella mia fiamma addio,” MOZART “Oh smania! oh furie!...D’Oreste, d’Aiace,”
from Idomeneo, Act III SCHULLER Where
the Word Ends (world premiere; BSO 125th anniversary commission) BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 _________________________ Thursday,
February 12, 8 p.m. Friday,
February 13, 8 p.m. BOSTON JAMES
LEVINE, conductor MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 1, 13, 14, and 18 Symphony in G, Lambach _________________________ Saturday,
February 14, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
February 17, 8 p.m. BOSTON JAMES
LEVINE, conductor MOZART Symphonies Nos. 19, 20, 21, and 25 _________________________ Thursday,
February 19, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal) Thursday
February 19, 8 p.m. Friday,
February 20, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
February 21, 8 p.m. BOSTON JAMES
LEVINE, conductor ALL-MOZART
PROGRAM Symphony
No. 39 Symphony
No. 40 Symphony
No. 41, Jupiter _________________________ Wednesday,
February 25, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal) Thursday,
February 26, 8 p.m. Friday,
February 27, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
February 28, 8 p.m. BOSTON YANNICK
NÉZET-SÉGUIN, conductor * JEAN-YVES
THIBAUDET, piano RAVEL Valses
nobles et sentimentales LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 6 Thursday,
March 5, 8 p.m. Friday,
March 6, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 7, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 10, 8 p.m. BOSTON ALAN
GILBERT, conductor STEPHEN
HOUGH, piano TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL
CHORUS, SIBELIUS Night
Ride and Sunrise RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini IVES Symphony No. 4 _________________________ Thursday,
March 12, 8 p.m. Friday,
March 13, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 14, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 17, 8 p.m. BOSTON HERBERT
BLOMSTEDT, conductor RICHARD
GOODE, piano NIELSEN Helios
Overture MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 _________________________ Thursday,
March 19, 8 p.m. Friday,
March 20, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 21, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 24, 8 p.m. BOSTON HANS
GRAF, conductor JANINE
JANSEN, violin ** ALISA
WEILERSTEIN, cello * BRAHMS Double Concerto for violin and cello BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 _________________________ Thursday,
March 26, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal) Thursday,
March 26, 8 p.m. Friday,
March 27, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
March 28, 8 p.m. BOSTON CHARLES
DUTOIT, conductor LISA
BATIASHVILI, violin ** RAVEL Mother
Goose Suite PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 STRAVINSKY Petrushka
(1911 version) Thursday,
April 9, 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 11, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
April 14, 8 p.m. BOSTON SHI-YEON
SUNG, conductor ** NELSON
FREIRE, piano SIBELIUS The
Bard GRIEG Piano Concerto COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin _________________________ Friday,
April 17, 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 18, 8 p.m. BOSTON YURI
TEMIRKANOV, conductor JULIA
FISCHER, violin JULIANE
BANSE, soprano * BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto MAHLER Symphony No. 4 _________________________ Thursday,
April 23, 8 p.m. Friday,
April 24, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 25, 8 p.m. BOSTON YURI
TEMIRKANOV, conductor RAVEL Le
Tombeau de Couperin STRAVINSKY Pulcinella
Suite DEBUSSY Petite Suite SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9 _________________________ Wednesday,
April 29, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal) Thursday,
April 30, 8 p.m. Friday,
May 1, 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
May 2, 8 p.m. BOSTON SIR
COLIN DAVIS, conductor IMOGEN
COOPER, piano MATTHEW
POLENZANI, tenor TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL
CHORUS, PALS CHILDREN’S
CHORUS, MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503 BERLIOZ Te Deum (All programs and artists are
subject to change)
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
Concert aria, K.528
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
ALYSOUN KEGEL, artistic director
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