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ENCORE BSO RECITALS—A WEEKLY ONLINE SERIESFEATURING 50 MUSICIANS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA IN NINE VIDEO STREAM PERFORMANCES—TO BERELEASED AT WWW.BSO.ORG EVERY THURSDAY AT NOON,

SEPTEMBER 17 THROUGH NOVEMBER 12

WITH NEWLY RECORDED MUSICIAN INTROS AND SPECIAL LIVEQ&As FOR SELECT PROGRAMS, THE ENCORE BSO RECITALSSERIES REPRISES PROGRAMMING INITIALLY RECORDED AND

AIRED THIS PAST SUMMER FOR THE TANGLEWOOD 2020ONLINE FESTIVAL

Click here for a sneak peek of violinist Lucia Lin and cellist Owen Young performing an excerpt fromRavel's Sonata for Violin and Cello

BSO MUSICIAN-PROGRAMMED SERIES FEATURES CONTEMPORARYCOMPOSERS OF COLOR AND WOMEN COMPOSERS, INCLUDING VALERIE

COLEMAN, PAQUITO D’RIVERA, KEVIN DAY, MARTI EPSTEIN, GABRIELA LENA

FRANK, CHAD "SIR WICK" HUGHES, JAMES LEE III, ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL, CHARLES OVERTON, AND DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN;

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BSO violinist Julianne Lee, Associate Principal Horn Richard Sebring, violinist Bonnie Bewick, cellistOwen Young

HOW TO ACCESS CONTENT FOR ENCORE BSO RECITALS:ALL NINE VIDEO CONCERT STREAMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR A MINIMUM

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ENCORE BSO RECITALS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR UP TO 30 DAYS, WITH THESERIES COMING TO AN END AS OF NOVEMBER 19

MEMBERS OF THE PRESS MAY ACCESS ALL CONTENT BYEMAILING MERIKSON@BSO.ORG

PLEASE NOTE: IN OCTOBER, THE BSO WILL ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF ITS NEWDIGITAL CONTENT SERIES TO BE RECORDED AT SYMPHONY HALL AND MADE

AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER AT WWW.BSO.ORG

ENCORE BSO RECITALS OFFERING IS PART OF THE BSO’S CONTINUING SERIESOF ONLINE PERFORMANCES CREATED IN RESPONSE TO THE LIVE

PERFORMANCE HIATUS IMPOSED BY REGULATIONS AROUND THE COVID-19PANDEMIC AND THE ENSUING HEALTH CRISIS

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BSO violist Mary Ferrillo, Principal Tuba Michael Roylance, violinist Lucia Lin, flutist Elizabeth OstlingThe Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present Encore BSO Recitals, a colorful and eclecticonline concert series spotlighting 50 musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in small ensemblesand giving viewers a rare opportunity to experience the individual artistry of many of the musicians whomake up the world-renowned ensemble. With newly recorded musician intros and special live Q&Asaccompanying select programs, the Encore BSO Recitals series reprises programming initiallyrecorded and aired this past summer for the Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival.

Performances in the Encore BSO Recitals will be released each Thursday at noon, September 17-November 12. The series as a multiple-stream package, accessible through www.bso.org, is availablefor a minimum donation of $25; all subscribers to the 2019-20 BSO Symphony Hall season andTanglewood 2020 Online Festival will be able to enjoy the online content free-of-charge. Most ofthe Encore BSO Recitals will be available for viewing for up to 30 days, with the entire season comingto a close on November 19.

“The Boston Symphony Orchestra is committed to connecting with our devoted audiences throughengaging online content during the time we would have typically presented our fall season at SymphonyHall,” said Mark Volpe, BSO President and CEO. “The Encore BSO Recitals series spotlights theincredibly talented musicians who make the Boston Symphony Orchestra the extraordinary, singularensemble it is today. This wide-ranging encore series will serve as a compelling prelude to a moreexpansive online offering featuring newly recorded performances from Symphony Hall to be premieredin November. We hope all our digital performances will inspire and sustain our loyal music communityand music fans worldwide during this period of live concert hiatus, until we can be together again withour magnificent orchestra and its music director Andris Nelsons.”

Please note: In October, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will announce details of its newdigital content series to be recorded at Symphony Hall and made availablethrough www.bso.org in November and December.

Encore BSO Recitals highlights include original compositions by BSO Associate Principal Horn GusSebring (written for alphorn and French horn) and folk arrangements by BSO violinist Bonnie Bewick;the world premiere 80 years after its composition of Sonatine for solo viola by acclaimed African-American composer Ulysses Kay; and newly commissioned works for brass ensemble by West Virginia-born composer and jazz pianist Kevin Day and trombonist and composer Chad "Sir Wick" Hughes. Othercontemporary composers of color and women composers represented in the programminginclude Daniel Bernard Roumain, Gabriela Lena Frank, James Lee III, Valerie Coleman,Paquito D’Rivera, Marti Epstein, and Allison Loggins-Hull. The Encore BSO Recitals series willalso feature works of Bach, Beethoven, Berio, Brahms, Copland, Dvořák, Hindemith, Mozart, Poulenc,Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, and Stravinsky, as well as a program of traditional American, Scottish, andIrish reels. See below for Encore BSO Recitals program descriptions; click here for program listing.

During its ongoing response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, the BSO has made a series ofannouncements that detailed the full slate of cancellations. These previous announcements can befound here. The BSO will continue to monitor recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control andthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as confer with its own team of medical experts on mattersrelated to an eventual reopening. All updates on this subject will be announced through press releasesand postings on www.bso.org.

ENCORE BSO RECITALS: PROGRAM DETAILS, SEPTEMBER 17-NOVEMBER 12Releases on Thursday, September 17 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Saturday,October 17J.S. BACH Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1005PAGANINI Larghetto in D-flat from Quartet No. 13 for guitar and strings (arr.for solo violin)SAURET (arr. ROMANUL) Prelude in G minor from Suite for Violin Solo, Op.68JOHNSON (arr. POWELL) “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” Victor Romanul, violinMENDELSSOHN Violin Sonata in FSTILL “Mother and Child” from the Suite for Violin and Piano

Tatiana Dimitriades, violin; Jonathan Bass, pianoPRICE String Quartet in G, II. Andante moderato Catherine French and Xin Ding, violins; Daniel Getz, viola; Mickey Katz, celloDVOŘÁK Terzetto in C, Op. 74 Catherine French and Xin Ding, violins; Daniel Getz, viola

The violin—whose presence by sheer force of numbers dominates the orchestral stage—is the focus ofthis chamber music program by BSO musicians. Victor Romanul plays four solo selections, including oneof the single most challenging pieces in the repertoire, the Chaconne from Bach’s D minor Partita.Tatiana Dimitriades performs two works for violin and piano: Mendelssohn’s early Sonata in F andWilliam Grant Still’s beautiful lullaby “Mother and Child” from his 1943 Suite for Violin and Piano. Stilland his contemporary Florence Price, whose String Quartet is performed here, were pioneering African-American composers. Completing this wide-ranging program is Antonín Dvořák’s Terzetto for two violinsand viola, which is infused with elements of Czech folk music.Releases on Thursday, September 24 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Saturday,October 24CLARKE Sonata for Viola and PianoKAY Sonatine for Viola and Piano (world premiere recording) Mary Ferrillo, viola; Brett Hodgdon, pianoBERIO Naturale, for viola, percussion, and recorded voice Steven Laraia, viola; Kyle Brightwell, percussionHINDEMITH Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 Daniel Getz, viola; Brett Hodgdon, piano

Three BSO violists perform on his program of all 20th-century masterworks.Both the English composer Rebecca Clarke’s and the German Paul Hindemith’s sonatas date from 1919,and both are staples of the viola-piano repertoire. The eminent American composer-conductor UlyssesKay, who studied with Hindemith at the Berkshire (now Tanglewood) Music Center, wrote his Sonatinefor Viola and Piano in 1939 but the piece was premiered only this past summer, in the BSO recitalpresented here. The great Italian composer Luciano Berio’s Naturale creates a remarkable landscape forviola and percussion evoking Italian folk song and incorporating pre-recorded Sicilian street cries.

Click here to hear the conclusion of Ulysses Kay's Sonatine for Viola and Piano, performed for the firsttime by BSO violist Mary Ferrillo and pianist Brett Hodgdon

Releases on Thursday, October 1 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Saturday,October 31MOZART Duo in G for violin and viola, K.424 Julianne Lee, violin; Rebecca Gitter, violaDaniel Bernard ROUMAIN Filter Julianne Lee, violinSCHUBERT String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D.804, Rosamunde Julianne Lee and Lisa Kim, violins; Steven Ansell, viola; Oliver Aldort,cello

BSO violinist Julianne Lee plays a short, energetic piece written by anotherviolinist, Daniel Bernard Roumain—his Filter for solo violin, which employs dynamic bowing techniquesto emulate electronic effects. Lee performs with BSO violist Rebecca Gitter in Mozart’s Duo in G, one oftwo duos the composer wrote as a favor for his friend Michael Haydn—Joseph’s brother—who fell illbefore fulfilling a commission. The G major duo is a substantial work of grace and elegance. FranzSchubert’s late string quartets rank among his greatest works. His songful Rosamunde Quartet, theonly one of these to be published in his lifetime, takes its name from a melody it shares with music hewrote for the stage play by that name.

Releases on Thursday, October 8 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Saturday,November 7Gabriela Lena FRANK “Prayer” from Suite Mestiza Lucia Lin, violinRAVEL Sonata for violin and cello Lucia Lin, violin; Owen Young, celloLOEFFLER Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano John Ferrillo, oboe; Mary Ferrillo, viola; Randall Hodgkinson, piano

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s music draws on and transcendsher rich cultural heritage, which includes Peruvian, Chinese, and EasternEuropean Jewish elements. Performed by BSO violinist Lucia Lin, the first movement, “Prayer,” ofFrank’s big solo violin Suite Mestiza was inspired by Peruvian religious songs on Quechua texts. Lin andBSO cellist Owen Young perform Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello, a varied, full-scale, four-movement work composed in memory of his colleague Claude Debussy. The German-born CharlesMartin Loeffler was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra violin section in its earliest decadesand a mainstay of Boston’s musical life until his death in 1935. His Two Rhapsodies are impressionisticinstrumental revisions of pieces that began life as songs.Releases on Thursday, October 15 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Saturday,November 14BEETHOVEN String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 Alexander Velinzon, violin; Danny Kim, viola; Adam Esbensen, celloGABRIELI (trans. Mark LEWIS) Canzona Seconda J.S. BACH (arr. Glenn SMITH) Contrapunctus IX from The Art of Fugue, BWV1080Kevin DAY IgnitionELLINGTON (arr. Clarence HINES) Come SundayChad “Sir Wick” HUGHES Tribute to SinfoniaDEBUSSY Trois Chansons Toby Oft, Stephen Lange, James Markey, trombones; Mike Roylance, tuba

This concert opens with Beethoven’s String Trio in G, one of a set of three string trios representing the

composer’s most important and substantial chamber music works of the 1790s. The concert continueswith a potpourri of music for low brass instruments ranging from Gabrieli’s late 16th-century canzonaand Contrapunctus IX from J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue to a high-velocity work by West Virginia-borncomposer Kevin Day and a tribute to the musical society Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia by Chad “Sir Wick”Hughes. Releases on Thursday, October 22 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Thursday,November 19Richard SEBRING Awaken! A New Day! for Alphorns (world premiererecording) Richard Sebring and Michael Winter, alphornsRichard SEBRING and Charles OVERTON Listen, to the Cry of Your FellowMan (world premiere recording) Richard Sebring, horn; Charles Overton, harpSCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro, for horn and pianoDUKAS Villanelle, for horn and piano Richard Sebring, horn; Vytas Baksys, pianoMOZART Horn Duos selected from K.487/496a Richard Sebring and Michael Winter, hornsMOZART Horn Quintet in E-flat, K.407 Rachel Childers, horn; Tatiana Dimitriades, violin; Cathy Basrak and Kathryn Sievers, violas;Mickey Katz, cello

This program of horn-centric music features not only the standard orchestral French horn but also itscousin, the long alphorn of Swiss, German, and Austrian tradition. BSO Associate Principal Horn RichardSebring and colleagues perform Sebring’s own new composition for alphorns to start this program. Thesecond Sebring work is a duet for horn and harp with former TMC Fellow Charles Overton. Standard-repertoire horn pieces by Schumann, Dukas, and Mozart—including the substantial Quintet in E-flat forhorn and strings—complete the program.

Click here to hear an excerpt from Richard Sebring's Awaken! A New Day! for Alphorns, performed byMichael Winter and Richard Sebring on the Tanglewood grounds

Releases on Thursday, October 29 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Thursday,November 19Bonnie BEWICK Cindy/Snowblower

TRAD. (arr. BEWICK) Roslin’s Castle/Ghostwalk/The ForayBonnie BEWICK Mt. Greylock WaltzTRAD. (arr. Mark O’CONNOR) LimerockGORNEY (arr. BEWICK) Introduction and Song from Once I Built a Railroad Bonnie Bewick, violin; Mickey Katz, cello; Lawrence Wolfe, bassMarti EPSTEIN (Wisp), Lawrence WOLFE (C), Sid RICHARDSON (Study forRemembrance), Nico MUHLY (Just One), Andrew LIST (Elegy for a ChangingWorld), Richard PANTCHEFF ("…the field long-slept in pastoralgreen…") #cellominute (world premiere recording) Mickey Katz, celloValerie COLEMAN UmojaPaquito D’RIVERA Selections from Aires Tropicales Cynthia Meyers, flute; Robert Sheena, oboe; Michael Wayne, clarinet; Richard Ranti, bassoon;Jason Snider, horn

Along with classical music, BSO violinist Bonnie Bewick has delved deeply into fiddle music from aroundthe world, including traditional American, Scotch and Irish reels, and music of other Europeantraditions. This program of traditional and folk-style pieces includes some of Bewick’s ownarrangements and compositions, as well as an arrangement by violinist Mark O’Connor and doublebassist Edgar Meyer of the American fiddle tune Limerock. BSO cellist Mickey Katz performs a selectionof new solo cello miniatures. These six one-minute pieces, which Katz solicited this past spring, are bycomposers Marti Epstein, BSO Assistant Principal Bass Lawrence Wolfe, Sid Richardson, Nico Muhly,Andrew List, and Richard Pantcheff. The program concludes with two colorful works for woodwindquintet by American composers: Umoja by Valerie Coleman and selections from Aires Tropicales byPaquito D’Rivera.

Releases on Thursday, November 5, at noon, at www.bso.org; available through Thursday.November 19 COPLAND Duo for Flute and Piano Elizabeth Ostling, flute; Randall Hodgkinson, pianoJames LEE III Chôro sem tristeza, for solo flute Elizabeth Ostling, fluteBRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Alexander Velinzon and Bracha Malkin, violins; Cathy Basrak, viola; Blaise Déjardin, cello; Jonathan Bass, piano

In this recital, BSO Associate Principal Flute Elizabeth Ostling performs twoAmerican works. Aaron Copland’s 1967 Duo features both the pastoral lyricism and the rhythmicbounce so characteristic of the composer. The Michigan-born composer James Lee III drew on hisstrong relationship with Brazil’s music and musicians for his Chôro sem tristeza, “lament withoutsadness.” Johannes Brahms’ F minor piano quintet began life as a string quintet before Brahms realizedhe needed the contrasting power of his own instrument, the piano, to bring the piece to its fullpotential. It today stands as one of the great chamber music works in the repertoire.

Releases on Thursday, November 12 at noon at www.bso.org; available through Thursday,November 19POULENC Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano John Ferrillo, oboe; Richard Ranti, bassoon; Vivian Choi, pianoAllison LOGGINS-HULL Homeland, for solo flute Elizabeth Rowe, fluteHENZE S. Biagio 9 agosto ore 1207, for solo bass

Edwin Barker, bassSTRAVINSKY Elegy, for solo viola Steven Ansell, violaBRAHMS Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114 William Hudgins, clarinet; Blaise Déjardin, cello; Vivian Choi, piano

Poulenc’s Trio for winds and piano, a model of neoclassical style and Frenchlyricism, opens this Boston Symphony Chamber Players program, whichcontinues with four solo works. BSO Principal Flute Elizabeth Rowe performsinnovative flutist-composer Allison Loggins-Hull’s evocative Homeland, which explores racial injusticeand the concept of belonging. Edwin Barker plays Hans Werner Henze's introspective solo bass piece S.Biagio 9 Agosto ore 1207, which refers in its title to an ancient Tuscan church. Violist Steven Ansellplays Stravinsky’s ceremonially somber Elegy from 1944. The program culminates with one of the greatchamber music works of the late Romantic era and one of Brahms’s final compositions, the warm andlyrical Clarinet Trio, Op. 114, one of several works Brahms wrote for the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld.For this performance, clarinetist William Hudgins joins cellist Blaise Déjardin and guest pianist VivianChoi. Originally aired in last summer’s Tanglewood Online Festival as part of the Recitals from the WorldStage series.

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Arbella Insurance Foundation, a longtime sponsor, is continuing its major sponsorship for the 15thseason as the Music for All sponsor, supporting our education and outreach programs so that everyonehas access to great classical music in our community.

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