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BEETHOVEN/STRAVIN 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 BEETHO NSKY 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.