The Pre-Concert Talk will be given by Elizabeth Seitz, Boston Conservatory, from 12:15PM - 12:45PM at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. Pre-Concert Talks are supported by New England Coffee.
Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty.
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About the Music
This concert celebrates the 70th birthday year of legendary Irish flutist Sir James Galway and the 80th birthday year of BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink, who leads Sir James and the orchestra in the effervescent Flute Concerto of the 20th-century French composer Jacques Ibert. Debussy's Nocturnes for orchestra, a triptych of exotically and colorfully scored tone paintings from 1899, begins these concerts. Completing the program is Brahms's Symphony No. 1. Haunted by the symphonic accomplishments of Beethoven, Brahms wrestled for years with the idea of writing a symphony before finally completing this piece in 1876, when he was forty-three.
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