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Boston Symphony Orchestra: Still, Strauss, and Bartok

Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Boston MA

Oct 19 2021

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Still, Strauss, and Bartok

Andris Nelsons - Boston Symphony Orchestra—Boston November 2018 Photography: Marco Borggreve

ANDRIS NELSONS CONDUCTS STILL, STRAUSS, AND BARTOK

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Andris Nelsons and the BSO continue their multi-season focus on music of Richard Strauss with his own Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten (“Woman Without a Shadow”), a 1946 orchestral distillation of his fabulist 1919 opera. The BSO hasn’t played music from the opera since the 1960s under Erich Leinsdorf. The concert opens with the great American composer William Grant Still’s Threnody: In Memoriam Jan Sibelius, composed in 1965. Though from very different traditions, Still