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BEETHOVEN/STRAVINSKY (re)DISCOVERED
THE FIGURE OF BEETHOVEN
SOARS OVER OUR 2016-2017 SEASON

SYMPHONY NO. 4
SYMPHONY NO. 5
SYMPHONY NO. 7

WITH ALL FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS,
SYMPHONY NO. 9, “CHORAL”
OVERTURE TO CORIOLAN
THE VIOLIN CONCERTO, AND SYMPHONIES
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1
NOS. 4, 5 AND 7. IT CULMINATES WITH
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2
THE OPTIMISTIC MESSAGE OF THE
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3
NINTH WITH ITS “ODE TO JOY.”
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4
BEETHOVEN WEEKEND IN
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5, “EMPEROR”
VIOLIN CONCERTO
NOVEMBER WILL FURTHER EXPLORE
STRING QUARTET NO. 14 IN C-SHARP MINOR
THE MUSIC AND THE MAN.
STRING QUARTET NO. 16 IN F MAJOR

BEETHOVEN

STRAVINSKY

Who better than Beethoven,
whose music opened the BSO’s
first-ever concert in 1916, to
begin our second century?
A humanist who strongly
believed in the principles of
the Enlightenment, he was
also an innovator who
forever changed classical
music. His values of
reason, tolerance and
equality are just as
relevant today, two
centuries later.

THE RADICAL
IMAGINATION OF

IGOR STRAVINSKY

LOOMS AS LARGE IN THE 20TH
CENTURY AS BEETHOVEN’S
DID IN THE 19TH.
He is the musical Picasso of his
time, keeping one eye on a new
world and the other on tradition.
The BSO showcases six of his
masterworks, from his early
Russian folk-inflected ballets,
The Firebird and Petrushka, to
his reimagining of 18th century
classicism through later choral
and symphonic masterpieces.

THE FIREBIRD (COMPLETE)
PETRUSHKA
SYMPHONIES OF WIND INSTRUMENTS
SYMPHONY OF PSALMS
CONCERTO IN E-FLAT, “DUMBARTON OAKS”
SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS

TWO GIANTS OF
CLASSICAL MUSIC –
DISCOVERED AND
REDISCOVERED.

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