Concert for the City

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.

Concert for the City is generously supported by the Li-Qiu Family Foundation.

12pm  

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

1:15pm

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

1:30pm  

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

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”