Harbison
Remembering Gatsby
(7 minutes)
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
(16 minutes)
Copland
Symphony No. 3
(43 minutes)
Benjamin Zander, conductor
There are many firsts for the BPYO on this program.
John Harbison, one of Boston’s musical luminaries for the fifty-odd years that he has lived here, is the composer of a large, extraordinarily varied body of work. Many of music’s highest honors have come his way—the Pulitzer Prize for music and a commission from the Metropolitan Opera (The Great Gatsby) among them. The BPYO plays his incandescent Remembering Gatsby (Foxtrot for Orchestra) for the first time since the senior Boston Philharmonic Orchestra played it in 1995.
This will be the first time that the BPYO plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and it is going to be very special indeed!
Finally the BPYO will play Copland's Symphony No. 3, a piece not yet performed by the BPO, for their very first time.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM Symphony Hall
There will be no pre-concert Guide to the music with Benjamin Zander before the concert.
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