BSO 2006-2007 Highlights

One significant change in the programming for 2006/2007 is that most BSO performances at Strathmore now take place on Thursdays. Saturdays were much more convenient and also gave us the opportunity to have a preview by going to Baltimore for the most important concerts, there. Alas, there is little we can do but complain about too much choice we are daunted with. Clearly a luxury problem.

This is a short list – highly subjective, as always – of what we consider the absolute highlights of the BSO’s upcoming season; either because of the repertoire presented or the artists involved - or, more likely, both. This is the "must-go" list... a more comprehensive one, pointing out other concerts you should consider, will be put up tomorrow.

Thursday, September 28th, 8PM – Strathmore
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, “Classical Symphony”
Sviridov: Miniature Triptych
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Yuri Temirkanov

Thursday/Friday, October 5th/6th, 8PM, Saturday, October 7th, 11AM – Meyerhoff only!
Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot, Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 10
Yuri Temirkanov / Yefim Bronfman

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007, 8PM – Strathmore
Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
(with Frans Lanting’s “LIFE – A Journey Through Time,” a photographic/multi-media work)
Marin Alsop

Saturday, May 19th 2007, 8PM – Strathmore
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 7, K. 242 (two-piano reduction)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Günther Herbig, Leon Fleisher, Katherine Jacobson