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FAMILY FRIENDLY :

Star Wars : The Force Awakens In Concert

FRI , APR 5 , 2024 , 7:30 PM STRATHMORE SAT , APR 6 , 2024 , 7:30 PM MEYERHOFF SUN , APR 7 , 2024 , 3 PM MEYERHOFF

Jack Everly , Conductor

Thirty years after the defeat of the Empire , Luke Skywalker has vanished and a new threat has risen : The First Order , led by the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke and his dark side enforcer , Kylo Ren . General Leia Organa ’ s military force , the Resistance — and unlikely heroes brought together by fate — are the galaxy ’ s only hope at thwarting a new reign of evil . From visionary director J . J . Abrams , the film features a new score composed by five-time Academy Award ® -winning composer John Williams . Experience the film on the big screen as the BSO performs the score live on stage .

© 2015 & TM Lucasfilm Ltd . Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox Film Corp , Lucasfilm and Warner / Chappell Music . © All rights reserved .

Prohibition And The Roaring ’ 20s

THU , APR 11 , 2024 , 8 PM STRATHMORE SAT , APR 13 , 2024 , 8 PM MEYERHOFF SUN , APR 14 , 2024 , 3 PM MEYERHOFF

Lawrence Loh , conductor

Imagine time-traveling one night through the dark cabarets and speakeasies of New York , Paris , Berlin , London , and Atlantic City , reliving the 1920s in all its decadence … prohibition , gangsters , ingénues , and Intrigue . PROHIBITION takes you on a journey through the era , from Rudy Vallée to Josephine Baker , from Kurt Weill to King Oliver , featuring the top hits of the decade authentically arranged for orchestra by GRAMMY-winner Jeff Tyzik , accompanied by vintage imagery and video from the period .

BSO FUSION :

Igor DAMN Stravinsky

FRI , APR 12 , 8 PM MEYERHOFF Steve Hackman , conductor

A daring fusion of two powerful and poignant masterpieces , the work combines Stravinsky ’ s Petrouchka with Kendrick Lamar ’ s Pulitzer Prizewinning album DAMN . As the puppets of Stravinsky ’ s ballet are made human and begin to experience emotions , we encounter the corresponding songs of Kendrick ’ s album : ‘ LOVE .’, ‘ FEAR .’, ‘ XXX .’, ‘ FEEL .’, ‘ LOYALTY .’, ‘ HUMBLE .’, and more .

Beethoven Symphony No . 2

THU , APR 18 , 2024 , 7:30 PM MEYERHOFF SAT , APR 20 , 2024 , 8 PM STRATHMORE

James Conlon , conductor Melody Moore , soprano Lucas Meachem , baritone

BEETHOVEN Symphony No . 2 ZEMLINSKY Lyric Symphony

James Conlon continues his exploration of Recovered Voices with a rare performance of the Lyric Symphony by Alexander von Zemlinsky , a onetime star of Vienna ’ s music scene who fled Nazi Germany and died in obscurity in New York . Opera standouts Melody Moore and Lucas Meachem bring the huge emotions of this ambitious score to life . Conlon , who “ conducts like a man with Beethoven encoded into his muscle memory ” ( The Washington Post ), takes a romp through Beethoven ’ s jovial Second Symphony .

Recovered Voices is a special initiative of LA Opera that seeks to bring the music of composers suppressed by the Holocaust to the stage . It was founded in 2006 with generous support from Marilyn Ziering .

Simon , Ives , And Rachmaninoff

FRI , APR 26 , 2024 , 8 PM MEYERHOFF

— Sold Out

SUN , APR 28 , 2024 , 3 PM STRATHMORE — Sold Out

Marin Alsop , conductor Yunchan Lim , piano

CARLOS SIMON AMEN ! IVES Symphony No . 2 RACHMANINOFF

Piano Concerto No . 2

When the 18-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition , he launched a global phenomenon , with more than nine million views and counting of his Rach 3 performance conducted by Marin Alsop . Now the BSO Music Director Laureate welcomes Lim to present Rachmaninoff ’ s stunningly gorgeous Piano Concerto No . 2 . Alsop continues her role as a leading champion of American music , presenting the hymn-filled Second Symphony of Ives ( a work premiered by her mentor , Leonard Bernstein ) along with Carlos Simon ’ s bluesy AMEN !

THE BSO IS PROUD TO OFFER THE KIDS LISTEN FREE PROGRAM !

For all Classical and Pops concerts , children ages 7-17 may attend free with the purchase of an adult ticket . Reservations will need to be made in advance , by phone or in person .

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Kids Listen Free is generously underwritten by Sarellen and Marshall A . Levine , M . D .

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