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Welcome
I always look forward to the changing of the seasons. With spring comes renewal and a new
energy that forecasts opportunities for reinvention and reimagining musical experiences, both
indoors and outdoors!
A summer highlight is the chance to move away from the mainstage and share music under
the stars at our annual “Star Spangled Spectacular,” July 3 and 4 at Oregon Ridge Park.
Picnics, face painting, food trucks and fireworks, all accompanied by patriotic favorites —I
can imagine no better way to spend a summer
Now is also a
evening. We’ll also have opportunities to see the
good time to visit
BSO in the great air-conditioned indoors at an
All-Baroque program on July 11, Video Games
the all-new
Live, July 17 at the Meyerhoff, an All-Beethoven
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program on July 25, and featuring special guest
Ben Folds on July 26.
Summer also means preparing for a new season of concerts. Many of the programs
explore themes of spirituality, from Mozart’s “Great” Mass, to Mahler’s symphonic
outpourin