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  March 20, 2008 6:00 PM
  March 21, 2008 6:00 PM
  March 22, 2008 6:00 PM
[Bernard Haitink]
Boston Symphony Orchestra
March 20, 2008 6:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
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Featured Artists
[Bernard Haitink]
Bernard Haitink
conductor
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[Ian Bostridge]
Ian Bostridge
tenor (Evangelist)
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[Thomas E. Bauer]
Thomas E. Bauer
baritone (Jesus)
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Marlis Petersen
soprano
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Christianne Stotijn
mezzo-soprano
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[Sir Colin Davis]
Steve Davislim
tenor
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[bso]
Peter Harvey
bass-baritone
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Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
PALS Children's Chorus
Alysoun Kegel, artistic director
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Program  Notes   Audio 
J.S. BACH
 St. Matthew Passion
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Due to early start time for this performance (7pm), there will be NO pre-concert talk.

On Monday, March 17 at 8:00 pm, the Goethe Institut Boston will present Baritone, Thomas Bauer in a concert of all Schumann Lieder together with his wife and trusted recital partner, pianist Uta Hielscher. The pair have released highly acclaimed recordings of German Lieder on the Naxos label. For more information please visit: goethe.de/boston .

BSO Concert Preview Podcast

Audio Concert Preview by Robert Kirzinger, BSO Publications Associate

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About the Music

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St.Matthew Passion is one of the supreme works of Western art. He wrote it for St. Thomas’s Church, Leipzig, in the late 1720s. Bach’s great work interleaves text from the Gospel of Matthew in Martin Luther’s translation, presented by soloists in highly expressive recitative and aria, with choral passages whose style is that of church hymns. This is a rare opportunity to hear the BSO perform this work, which will be lead by BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink.
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