BSO Concerts at Carnegie Hall
James Levine to Conduct March 15 to 17
By: Ariel Petrova - 01/27/2010
James Levine will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three programs March 15 to 17 at Carnegie Hall.
For the 2010-11 Carnegie Hall season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director James Levine present a concentrated three-program series, Tuesday, March 15, Wednesday, March 16, and Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 8 p.m., as part of Carnegie Halls Great American Orchestras and Concerto Series.
The BSOs first concert of the 2010-11 Carnegie Hall season, on March 15, features Christian Teztlaff in three major works for violin and orchestra, including the New York premiere of a new work by British composer Harrison Birtwistle. Composed especially for Mr. Teztlaff and the BSO, Birtwistles new work for violin and orchestra receives its world premiere on March 3, 2011 in Bostons Symphony Hall. The March 15, Carnegie Hall program opens with Mr. Tetzlaff performing Mozarts Rondo in C for violin and orchestra and closes with Bartóks masterful Violin Concerto No. 2.
The BSOs second program on March 16 pairs the music of two brilliant, aesthetically diverse masters, Mozart and Schoenberg, both of whom have been ardently championed by Maestro Levine as well as the evenings distinguished guest soloist, pianist Maurizio Pollini. Mr. Pollini will join the orchestra for Mozarts lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488, and the groundbreaking Piano Concerto of Arnold Schoenberg. The program also includes two other masterpieces of their genre, Schoenbergs Variations for Orchestra, considered the composers most mature orchestral work, and Mozarts final symphony, the Symphony No. 41, Jupiter.
The final program in the series on March 17 is dedicated to the powerful and moving Symphony No. 9 of Gustav Mahler, reflecting the ongoing survey by Mr. Levine and the BSO of the great composers orchestral works. The Symphony No. 9, the last score Mahler completed before his death in 1911, is considered by many to be his finest orchestral achievement.
TICKET AND SPONSOR INFORMATION
Tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestras 2010-11 appearances at Carnegie Hall range from $45-$150. Subscriptions are available now; single tickets will go on sale August 23 for subscribers and August 30 for general public. Tickets are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, New York. They may also be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or purchased online at the Carnegie Hall website, www.carnegiehall.org
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2010 CARNEGIE HALL CONCERTS
March 15, 2011, 8 p.m.
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, violin
MOZART Rondo in C for violin and orchestra, K. 373
BIRTWISTLE New work for violin and orchestra, BSO commission
BARTOK Violin Concerto No. 2
March 16, 2011, 8 p.m.
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MAURIZIO POLLINI, piano
SCHOENBERG Variations for Orchestra
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488
SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto
MOZART Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
March 17, 2011, 8 p.m.
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 9