Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces Program Changes for December 2011 West Coast Tour and Carnegie Hall Programs in March 2012

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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011

CONDUCTOR LUDOVIC MORLOT LEADS WEST COAST PROGRAMS, DECEMBER 6-10;

PROGRAMS TO INCLUDE MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 25 IN C, K.503, WITH

RICHARD GOODE, ELLIOTT CARTER’S FLUTE CONCERTO WITH BSO PRINCIPAL FLUTIST

ELIZABETH ROWE, RAVEL’S SUITE NO. 2 FROM

DAPHNIS AND CHLOÉ,

MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 1, AND BRAHMS’S VIOLIN CONCERTO WITH GIL SHAHAM

CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAMS MARCH 6, 7, AND 9 TO FEATURE CONDUCTORS KURT MASUR LEADING BEETHOVEN’S

MISSA SOLEMNIS

; CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH LEADING BERLIOZ’S

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE

AND RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO IN G WITH CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN; AND STÉPHANE DENÈVE LEADING SHOSTAKOVICH’S SYMPHONY NO. 5, RAVEL’S

MOTHER GOOSE

SUITE, AND STRAVINSKY’S CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND WINDS WITH PETER SERKIN

THIS INFORMATION IS BEING RELEASED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S 2011-12 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT, AVAILABLE

HERE

With James Levine stepping down as Boston Symphony Music Director as of September 2011 to focus on his continuing recovery from a series of back procedures, Maestro Levine will not conduct the BSO during its 2011-12 season, which, in addition to the orchestra’s 2011-12 season at Symphony Hall in Boston, also includes five West Coast performances in California, December 6-10, and three concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York, March 6, 7, and 9. Changes to the previously announced programming for the BSO’s West Coast tour and Carnegie Hall concert series are outlined below. This information is being released in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 season announcement, availablehere.

Ludovic Morlot to lead BSO in West Coast performances to take place December 6 and 7

in San Francisco, December 8 in Santa Barbara, December 9 in Palm Desert,

and December 10 in Los Angeles

Following his two weeks of programs with the BSO, November 17-29, at Symphony Hall in Boston, French conductorLudovic Morlotand the Boston Symphony Orchestra travel west December 6­-10, 2011, for a four-city tour of California—to include San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Palm Desert, and Los Angeles—that brings highlights of the BSO’s Symphony Hall subscription programs to the West Coast of the United States. An assistant conductor of the BSO from 2004 to 2007, Maestro Morlot has since appeared with major orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw, and is now Music Director Designate of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

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PROGRAMS IN SAN FRANCISCO DECEMBER 6 AND 7 REMAIN UNCHANGED FROM ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

In a diverse program December 6 in San Francisco, Maestro Morlot and the BSO are joined by the distinguished American pianistRichard Goodefor Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503. Also featured on the program is the BSO’s own principal flutist,Elizabeth Rowe, who steps in front of the orchestra as soloist in Elliott Carter’s Flute Concerto, a BSO co-commission that received its U.S. premiere with Ms. Rowe and the orchestra in February 2010. The program opens with Berlioz’sRoman CarnivalOverture and concludes with Bartók’s Suite fromThe Miraculous Mandarin, drawn from the composer’s original scandal-inducing stage work about three cash-strapped men who attempt to use the provocative dancing of their female companion to attract and steal money from passers-by.

The following night, the orchestra concludes its stay in San Francisco with a program including the Symphony No. 4 of John Harbison, a work from 2003 by a composer whose music has been featured prominently by the BSO in recent seasons. The concert ends with Mahler’s at times brooding, at times vigorously energetic First Symphony. In between the two symphonies is Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from his orchestral masterpiece, the ballet scoreDaphnis et Chloé, beginning with a scintillating depiction of the sunrise and gradually gaining momentum until finally expending its energy at the end of a frantic orgiastic dance.

TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for the December 6 and 7 performances at Davies Symphony Hall range from $15-$120. Subscriptions are available now; Single tickets go on sale July 25 at 8 a.m. Pacific Time at the Box Office, and at 10 a.m. Pacific Time online and by phone. For tickets or more information, please call 415-864-6000 or visit

www.sfsymphony.org

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BSO CONCERT IN SAN

TA BARBARA, DECEMBER 8

On December 8 in Santa Barbara, the orchestra repeats the December 6 program with one change in repertoire. Instead of the Carter concerto, Mr. Morlot leads the BSO in the Prelude and Love-death from Wagner’s monumental music dramaTristan und Isolde, inspired, transcendental music that works its magic as effectively in the concert hall as in the opera house.

TICKET INFORMATION: Subscriptions for the December 8 performance at the Granada Theatre are available now; Single tickets go on sale in September. For tickets or more information, please call 805-899-2222 or visit

www.granadasb.org

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BSO CONCERT IN

PALM DESERT, DECEMBER 9

December 9’s Palm Desert program features Berlioz’sRoman CarnivalOverture, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503, withRichard Goodeas soloist, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for the December 9 performance at McCallum Theatre range from $50-$85. A limited number of series subscriptions are available now; wait lists for single tickets will open on November 15, 2011. For tickets, series subscription applications or more information, please call the Palm Springs Friends of the Philharmonic at 760-341-1013 or visit

www.psfp.org

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BSO CONCERT IN

LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER 10

On December 10 in Los Angeles, the BSO concludes its West Coast tour with a concert featuring Israeli-American violinistGil Shahamin performing Brahms’s Violin Concerto on a program with Harbison’s Symphony No. 4 and Ravel’sDaphnis

et Chloé, Suite No. 2.

TICKET INFORMATION: Subscription tickets for the December 10 performance are available now at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office, online at LAPhil.com, or via credit card by phone at 323-850-2000. Single tickets, available as of August 21, range from $46-$155. A limited number of $10 rush tickets for seniors and full time students may be available at the Walt Disney Concert Hall box office two hours prior to the performance. Valid identification is required; one ticket per person; cash only. Groups of 12 or more may be eligible for special discounts for selected concerts and seating areas. For information, please call 323-850-2000.

For complete programs, concert listing, ticket information, photos, and artist bios, click here:

www.bso.org/presskit

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BSO Carnegie Hall performances under the direction Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, and

Stéphane Denève

to take place March 6, March 7, and March 9, 2012, as part of Carnegie Hall’s Great American Orchestras and Choral Classics series

During the 2011–2012 season, theBoston Symphony Orchestrawill present three programs featuring three different conductors at New York’s Carnegie Hall in a four-day span, on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at 8 p.m., and Friday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. The concerts feature a wide range of repertoire that demonstrates the orchestra’s responsiveness and versatility in a broad range of symphonic styles encompassing core Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century repertoire.

KURT MASUR LEADS BSO AT CARNEGIE HALL MARCH 6

The BSO opens its 2011­-2012 Carnegie Hall season on March 6 with a program featuring a single monumental work. Eminent German maestroKurt Masurconducts the orchestra, joined by theTanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, sopranoChristine Brewer, mezzo-sopranoMichelle DeYoung, tenorSimon O’Neill, and bass-baritoneEric Owensin Beethoven’s powerfulMissa solemnis, one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire for orchestra and chorus and a towering achievement of Beethoven’s career. Composed between 1819 and 1823, thework dates from the composer’s late period and displays the same introspective mood and powerful contrapuntal writing found in much of Beethoven’s music toward the end of his life.

CHRISTOPH ESCHENBAC

H LEADS BSO AT CARNEGIE HALL MARCH 7

For the March 7 program, French pianistCédric Tiberghienjoins the BSO, conducted by current National Symphony Orchestra Music DirectorChristoph Eschenbach, for a reprise of the March 2-3 Symphony Hall program, featuring Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, completed in 1931 and heavily influenced by jazz. To begin and end the program, Mr. Eschenbach will conduct the BSO in two works by Berlioz: the Overture toBenvenuto Celliniand the composer’s beloved symphonic touchstone, the dazzlingSymphonie fantastique, a virtuosic orchestral narrative boasting some of the most vibrant symphonic music ever written.

STÉPHANE DENÈVE

LEADS BSO AT CARNEGIE HALL MARCH 9

On March 9, renowned pianistPeter Serkin, especially known for his tireless advocacy and outstanding performances of 20th-century and contemporary music, joins the BSO and French conductorStéphane Denèveto close the BSO’s 2011–2012 Carnegie Hall season with a program of Ravel, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich. Mr. Serkin is the soloist for Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds, a work from Stravinsky’s neoclassical period of which the composer wrote that he had “gone back in the centuries and begun over again, on a historic foundation.” Also on the program are Ravel’sMother GooseSuite, a scintillating collection of orchestral fairy-tale pieces conceived originally by Ravel as four-hand piano music for children, and Shostakovich’s multi-faceted and exhilarating Symphony No. 5.

CARNEGIE HALL

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 appearances at Carnegie Hall range from $48-$148. Tickets for the Boston Pops concert range from $42-$124. Subscriptions are available now; single tickets will go on sale August 22 for subscribers and August 29 for general public. Tickets are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, New York. They may also be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or purchased online at the Carnegie Hall website,

www.carnegiehall.org

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SPONSORSHIPS

The March 6 BSO concert is sponsored by Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation, the Official Chauffeured Transportation Provider of the BSO. The March 7 concert is sponsored by UBS. The March 9 concert is sponsored by EMC Corporation.

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PRESS CONTACTS:

Bernadette Horgan, Director of Public Relations (bhorgan@bso.org) 617-638-9285

Kathleen Drohan, Associate Director of Public Relations (kdrohan@bso.org) 617-638-9286

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WEST COAST TOUR PROGRAMS, DECEMBER 6-10, 2011

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