The Pre-Concert Talk will be given by Joseph Auner, Tufts University, from 9:30AM - 10:00AM at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. Pre-Concert Talks are supported by New England Coffee.
Open Rehearsals are open to the public and are offered at a discounted price from the actual performance ticket prices. Tickets to Open Rehearsals are priced for general admittance and seating is on a "first come, first served" basis. Patrons should be aware that these performances are working rehearsals in which the conductor may stop the orchestra to rehearse specific passages of the music that the conductor considers to require more refinement. Conductors may choose to repeat or omit movements or works.
Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty.
About the Music
American soprano Renée Fleming joins Levine and the BSO in Richard Strauss’s beautiful Four Last Songs, written in 1943 as a kind of late-life love letter to the composer’s wife Pauline. Fleming is also soloist in the final movement of Mahler’s warm, gorgeous Symphony No. 4. Mahler and Strauss were congenial colleagues at the center of Austro-German musical life; Alban Berg’s fantastical Three Pieces for Orchestra were heavily influenced by Mahler as well as by Berg’s teacher Schoenberg.
![[Renee Fleming]](/images/_images/_musicians/ReneeFlemingx95.jpg)
![[James Levine]](/images/_images/_musicians/JamesLevinex63.jpg)
![[Renee Fleming]](/images/_images/_musicians/ReneeFlemingx63.jpg)
