43rd Season! 2019-20

October 26, 2019 8pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center

Hilary Purrington Above the last cloud
Call for Scores Winner
Gunther Schuller Dreamscape (2012)
Maurice Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand  (1929-30)
Hannah Lash God Music Bug Music  (2011)
First Boston performance
Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra  (1909, rev 1949)

December 7, 2019 3pm Family Concert
Boston University Tsai Performance Center

Christopher Rouse The Infernal Machine (1981)
Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra  (1946)
Joyce Kulhawik, narrator
Concerto played by the NEP Young Artist’s Competition Winner
Bernard Hoffer Little Red Riding Hood  (2018)
Joyce Kulhawik, narrator

February 23, 2020 3pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

John Adams The Chairman Dances  (1985)
Bernard Hoffer Violin Concerto No. 2 (“Decapod”) (2019)
World premiere
Danielle Maddon, soloist
Judith Weir Moon and Star  (1995)
First Boston performance
Bela Bartok Kosssuth  (1903)
First Boston performance

April 25, 2020 8pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center

Igor Stravinsky Feu d’artifice
Helen Grime Night Songs (2012)
First Boston performance
Eric Nathan Double Concerto for Solo Violin, Solo Clarinet and Strings (2019)
Stefan Jackwij, violin, Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Co-commission with The New York Classical Players
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1