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Levine Opens 2007-08 Boston Symphony Orchestra Season - September 27, 2007
BOSTON - The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director James Levine will open their 2007-08 concert season with an all-Ravel program featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Jean-Yves Thibau on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m.
Opening-night tickets are $75 to $200 and include a pre-concert Symphony Hall reception; benefactor tickets of $1,000 to $2,500 include gala opening night dinner at the Copley Fairmont.
The orchestra launches its 127th season with Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and closes the program with the composer’s second suite from Daphnis et Chloe. "Sheherazade," featuring mezzo-soprano Graham, and the Piano Concerto in G, featuring Thibaudet, will complete the program.
Opening night tickets can be purchased through SymphonyCharge at 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200, in person at the Symphony Hall box office or at www.bso.org. The box office is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 2007-08 Boston Symphony Season, Oct. 4-May 4, is sponsored by UBS. Cadillac and Shreve, Crump & Low are this season’s "Opening Night at Symphony" partners.
Other Season Highlights
This season marks Levine’s fourth as music director. He is the orchestra’s 14th music director since the BSO’s founding in 1881 and the first American-born conductor to hold that position. Highlights of his season with the BSO include Smetana’s Ma Vlast (Nov. 23-27), Debussy’s La Mer (Nov. 29-Dec. 1), and Mahler’s First and Ninth symphonies (Nov. 15-20 and Nov. 8-10, respectively), as well as Mahler’s "Das Lied von der Erde" (April 17-18).
Levine leads the orchestra in the world premieres of Elliott Carter’s "Horn Concerto" (Nov. 15-20), John Harbison’s Symphony No. 5 (April 17-18) - both BSO commissions - and the world premiere of William Bolcom’s Symphony No. 8 for chorus and orchestra (Feb. 28-March 1), a BSO 125th Anniversary Commission, as well as the American premiere of Henri Dutilleux’s "Le Temps l’Horloge" for soprano and orchestra (Nov. 29-Dec. 1), a BSO 125th anniversary co-commission.
Tickets for the regular-season concerts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and of Friday afternoons are priced from $29 to $103; concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons are priced from $30 to $114. Open rehearsal tickets are $19 each (general admission). |
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