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This past Saturday was a night of firsts for guests of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In an all-French program, acclaimed Italian conductor, Fabio Luisi, and French pianistic upstart, Lise de la Salle, made their BSO debuts. While the concert did not feature the careful artistic consideration the BSO lends to its usual program of heavier masterworks, Luisi and de la Salle substituted a delightful helping of flair for the conventional dose of substance—a move that was quite appropriate for the lighter musical fare these particular pieces offered...
...parts frenetic enough to break a few strings along the way. The brass section was assertive and bold, but never shrill in its approach, inserting sarcastic staccatos in the most traditionally irreverent of places. Luisi urged the ensemble to a pleasantly deafening climax, raising questions as to why the BSO doesn’t program entertaining pieces like these more often...
...crowded house welcomed Cortese as he opened the concert with Hector Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival,” the same overture that James Levine selected to jumpstart the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) current season. The formidable musical benchmark the BSO set just last month, however, hardly deterred the best of Harvard’s instrumentalists from delivering a comparable rendition...
...that the BSO is offering $20 (i.e. dirt-cheap) tickets for people under 40, don't judge. Like newspapers, symphony orchestras either have to beg on their knees for young people to dish out at least some money, or they may die along with their patronage base...
This turns out to be more convenient than free concerts under the $25 BSO College Card, because for that, you would have to trek all the way to the box office on the day of the concert to see if they actually have tickets available for that night. For this new deal, which was made possible by an anonymous (elderly?) donor, you can actually buy tickets online and show your photo ID when you're picking up your tickets at the door...