Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty.
About the Music
Watch the video exclusive of "On Willows and Birches"!
For Opening Night of the 2009-10 season, BSO Music Director James Levine leads a diverse program including the world premiere of a new work by John Williams, On Willows and Birches, written especially for the BSO's longtime principal harp, Ann Hobson Pilot, who retired from the BSO at the end of the 2009 Tanglewood season. The dazzling Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin is soloist in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, one of the composer's few works with orchestra. Berlioz's rousing Roman Carnival Overture, based on music from his opera Benvenuto Cellini, opens the program, which concludes with Debussy's lush, shimmering La Mer—a piece given its American premiere by the BSO in 1907.
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![[James Levine]](/images/_images/_musicians/JamesLevinex63.jpg)
![[Evgeny Kissin]](/images/_images/_musicians/EvgenyKissinx63.jpg)
![[Ann Hobson Pilot]](/images/musicians/annhobsonpilot63.jpg)
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