Concert for the City

Please note that due to weather conditions, the free outdoor Community Showcases will now be held indoors in Higginson Hall. Enter through the Cohen Wing entrance on Huntington Avenue for these performances. We look forward to seeing you starting at 12:00pm for a joyful afternoon of music-making and community spirit before the main concert begins at 3:00pm.

Tickets are not required for the Community Showcase in Higginson Hall, but please note that tickets for the remainder of the showcases and concert are required.

We throw open the Symphony Hall doors to showcase all that the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops have to offer, alongside our arts and music education partners and programs from throughout Greater Boston. Join BSO and Pops musicians, Music Director Andris Nelsons, Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, and Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins for a free and joyful afternoon of music-making and community spirit.

12pm (Higginson Hall)

Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Promenade & Seiji Ozawa Multicultural Community Showcase
Taneshia Nash Laird, emcee
Juan Nieves Trio
OrigiNation Dance Troupe
Arnie Williams Steel Drum Band
Veronica Robles Community Dancers

1:30pm (Cabot-Cahners Room)

John Oliver Choral Community Showcase 
Pelin Su Yavuz and Brian Washington, jazz duo
Members of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir
Community Music Center of Boston

1:30pm (O'Block / Kay Room)

Ann Hobson & Prentice Pilot Youth Community Showcase
Four Strings Academy 
Project STEP 
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Dilzafer Singh, tabla
The Spirituals of Boston Arts Academy

3pm 

Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, and Thomas Wilkins, conductors 
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
The Hon. Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, piano 
Renese King, vocalist 
Tanglewood Festival Chorus 
Parker-Vincent Alva, Boston Youth Poet Laureate 
Boston Children’s Chorus 
Musicians of the Boston Festival Orchestra 
Veronica Robles and her Mariachi Ensemble 

Program to include:

Boston Children’s Chorus 
Tracy CHAPMAN (arr. Nancy O’CONNOR) “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution” 
Kirby SHAW “We Will Stand” 
Brandon A. BOYD “Sign Me Up”

Musicians of the Boston Festival Orchestra
 Farayi Malek, vocals
 Alyssa Wang, violin
 Aron Zelkowicz, cello
 Ruoting Li, piano
Porter GRAINGER “You Ought to Be Ashamed” 
HOLIDAY (arr. Boston Festival Orchestra) “Strange Fruit”
Justin NIELSEN (arr. Boston Festival Orchestra) “Caged Bird”

Presenting Veronica Robles and her Mariachi Ensemble

-Intermission-

Carlos SIMON Festive Fanfare and Overture 

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, second movement: Allegro con grazia 

Adolphus HAILSTORK Fanfare on "Amazing Grace" 

Missy MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

WARD/BATES “America the Beautiful”

Concert for the City is generously supported by lead sponsor:
Li-Qiu Family Foundation
With additional support by:
Tom Kuo, Chair, and Alexandra DeLaite