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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Boston Symphony Orchestra founded in 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson, who was its director and financial backer until 1918. The orchestra performed at the Old Boston Music Hall for nearly 20 years until Symphony Hall was built in 1900; its concerts continue to be held there. The Boston Symphony's outstanding conductors have included Sir George Henschel (1881-84), Arthur Nikisch (1889-93), Karl Muck (1906-08; 1912-18), Pierre Monteux (1919-24), Serge Koussevitzky (1924-49), Charles Munch (1949-62), Erich Leinsdorf (1962-69), William Steinberg (1969-73), Seiji Ozawa (1973-2002),... Read more
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra . One of great orchs. of world, founded at Boston, Mass., 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson who endowed it with a million dollars. First concert 22 Oct. 1881, cond. by Sir George Henschel... Read more
symphony
...musical composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements...x220E;  chiefly hist. an orchestral interlude in a large-scale vocal...different elements: autumn is a symphony of texture and pattern. ∎  (esp. in names of orchestras) short for symphony orchestra ... Read more

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Shows It Can Also Conduct Business.
; ...together the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and...Music Center orchestras. Fireworks...American orchestras face declining...endowments, Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. -- the...up of the Boston Symphony, the Pops...themselves. The Boston ... Read more
Symphony conducts winning campaign. (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (Non-Profit Echo Award Winners)
; ...difficulties in recent years, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been gaining more and...Symphony, past contributors; Boston Symphony Orchestra Subscribers, symphony subscribers...contributors were supplied by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The new ... Read more
LESLIE R. MARTIN, 67, BASS PLAYER IN BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
; ...with the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1957...Music Center Orchestra in 1950...and three Boston Symphony colleagues...represented the orchestra on the International...Conference of Symphony and Opera...taught at Boston University... Read more
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HEADS FOR THE FAR EAST
; Tomorrow the Boston Symphony Orchestra takes off to...In Japan the orchestra will perform...Resurrection" Symphony, the Ives-Schubert-Strau...was heard in Symphony Hall last week...featuring the Seventh Symphony and the Violin...members of the orchestra who will ... Read more
Boston Symphony Orchestra delivers old-fashioned concert
; THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa...concert in Symphony Hall last night Last night's Boston Symphony concert...all-symphonic kind most orchestras don't risk...Haydn's 86th Symphony showed what both the orchestra and the music... Read more
SETTING THE PACE IN 2004; We pick five who will change the face of arts and entertainment in Boston this year; James Levine, Boston Symphony Orchestra.(Arts and Lifestyle)
; ...Ozawa gave the Boston Symphony Orchestra his notice...transform the Met's orchestra from the scrappy...world's top orchestras for concert...Met the finest orchestra in America...the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony. The ... Read more
Controversy colored maestro's Boston Symphony Orchestra career.
; ...director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra long after he departs...existence of the symphony orchestra, period, an institution...problem, one that in Boston is only mitigated...tirelessly to make the Boston Symphony Orchestra the essential part... Read more
THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, SEIJI OZAWA
; The Boston Symphony Orchestra's first "CD-single" presents Henri...recorded in live performances at Symphony Hall in March. Some fancy footwork...felt a deep attachment to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and last October spent many exhilarating... Read more
Previn keeps cool control of the BSO; Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andre Previn, at Symphony Hall, Boston, Thursday night.
; ...about to take the Boston Symphony Orchestra on a two-week...show off the orchestra, both as an ensemble...Thursday night at Symphony Hall. The Haydn...Previn and the orchestra played the work...Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony was one of those... Read more
The Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston.(Editorial)
; ...The Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, Max Hobart...the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston. But this...estimable Civic Symphony, and what...the Civic Symphony's last performance...Shaham and the orchestra were joined... Read more

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