BSO Concert for the City

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Dates:	Saturday, September 21, 2024 - Saturday, September 21, 2024
Hours:	12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Ages:	Kids, Teens
In/Outdoor:	Indoor, Outdoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Music & Concerts

Celebrate Boston's vibrant spirit and culture.

Gather with your community and enjoy a free concert featuring the BSO together with musicians and artists from throughout Boston.

We throw open the Symphony Hall doors to showcase all that the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops have to offer, alongside our arts and music education partners and programs from throughout Greater Boston. Join BSO and Pops musicians, Music Director Andris Nelsons, Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, and Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins for a free and joyful afternoon of music-making and community spirit.

12pm (Outdoor Stage)
Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Promenade & Seiji Ozawa Multicultural Community Showcase
Taneshia Nash Laird, emcee
Juan Nieves Trio
OrigiNation Dance Troupe
Arnie Williams Steel Drum Band
Veronica Robles Community Dancers

1:30pm (Cabot-Cahners Room)
John Oliver Choral Community Showcase
Pelin Su Yavuz and Brian Washington, jazz duo
Members of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir
Community Music Center of Boston

1:30pm (O'Block / Kay Room)
Ann Hobson & Prentice Pilot Youth Community Showcase
Four Strings Academy
Project STEP
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Dilzafer Singh, tabla
The Spirituals of Boston Arts Academy

3pm
Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, and Thomas Wilkins, conductors
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
The Hon. Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, piano
Renese King, vocalist
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Parker-Vincent Alva, Boston Youth Poet Laureate
Boston Children’s Chorus
Musicians of the Boston Festival Orchestra
Veronica Robles and her Mariachi Ensemble

Program to include:

Boston Children’s Chorus
Tracy CHAPMAN (arr. Nancy O’CONNOR) “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution”
Kirby SHAW “We Will Stand”
Brandon A. BOYD “Sign Me Up”

Musicians of the Boston Festival Orchestra
Farayi Malek, vocals
Alyssa Wang, violin
Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Ruoting Li, piano
Porter GRAINGER “You Ought to Be Ashamed”
HOLIDAY (arr. Boston Festival Orchestra) “Strange Fruit”
Justin NIELSEN (arr. Boston Festival Orchestra) “Caged Bird”

Presenting Veronica Robles and her Mariachi Ensemble

-Intermission-

Carlos SIMON Festive Fanfare and Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, second movement: Allegro con grazia
Adolphus HAILSTORK Fanfare on 'Amazing Grace'
Missy MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
WARD/BATES “America the Beautiful”

Mayor Michelle Wu will perform George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops as the featured guest soloist. This is Mayor Wu’s second appearance as a guest soloist at Symphony Hall, having performed at last year's Concert for the City.

Mayor Wu, Chad Smith, Andris Nelsons, and Keith Lockhart will host a media availability after the performance at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Concert for the City is generously supported by lead sponsor:
Li-Qiu Family Foundation
With additional support by:
Tom Kuo, Chair, and Alexandra DeLaite

COST

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Free

WEBSITE

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www.bso.org/events/2024-concert-for-the-city

LOCATION

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Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA, 02115 map
Phone: 6172661200