
Best of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seasonally available weekday evenings 8 to 10 pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Brian Bell, historian and host of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on WGBH for years, presents this Best of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, using archival and commercial recordings. We'll hear concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops commercial recordings and archival recordings from previous seasons at Tanglewood.
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An illustration by Gaia Bordicchia for Swan Lake published in France by Editions Auzou.
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No photo from 1946, but here is Leonard Bernstein with the Boston Symphony in 1970. We take you way back on Apr 19th @ 8p.
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In 1953, Maestro Charles Munch led the Boston Symphony on its first transcontinental tour of the US. He remained with the BSO for 13 seasons. We'll hear some of these archival performances, Tuesdays @ 8pm beginning March 15th.
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12/1 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Respighi: Feste Romana (Serge Koussevitzky and Seiji Ozawa, cond)
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Four great conductors lead Boston's finest on the 11/3 broadcast of The Best of the Boston Symphony. We see Charles Munch, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard…
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10/6 All-American Copland: An Outdoor Overture Gershwin: Three Preludes Fine: Toccata Concertante Anderson: A Trumpeter’s Lullaby; Bugler’s Holiday Torke:…