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  • Thomas Wilkins conducts the first BSO performance of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with soloist Randall Goosby in his Tanglewood debut, part of a program that also includes Bernstein’s life-affirming "Chichester Psalms" and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
  • After 250 years, it’s safe to say that America has found its footing when it comes to classical music. From the earliest colonial-era fife and drum tunes, to full length contemporary operas, here are 50 pieces of classical music specifically associated with each of America's 50 United States.
  • Andrés Orozco-Estrada makes his Tanglewood debut conducting Dvořák’s much-beloved Ninth Symphony, and the inimitable Joshua Bell joins to play Lalo’s spirited Symphonie espagnole.
  • Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming sing three scenes from John Adams’ "Nixon in China," and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Antonín Dvořák's "New World" Symphony in a concert celebrating the American sound.
  • Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural world.
  • Nodoka Okisawa, a protégée of former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with Takemitsu’s “Requiem for strings,” as well as Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto with soloist Midori.
  • As Halloween approaches, trick-or-treat your way through these haunted classical hits!
  • Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 on a program including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Forward Into Light", a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.”
  • In an encore broadcast, Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6, and Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his BSO debut in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto.
  • In an encore broadcast, Elder leads the BSO in Ravel's "Mother Goose" and Dvořák's "The Noonday Witch," as well as a new work by Elena Langer featuring cellist Blaise Déjardin and Janáček's spectacular Sinfonietta.