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Boston Globe
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
American music, Symphony Hall's 125th anniversary, and the natural world: Inside the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2025-26 season
Moreover, he said, the upcoming season 'represents the beginning of a deep exploration of the humanities' in the orchestra's work, with more supplementary events hosted by the BSO's humanities institute to be announced at a later date. 'We're beginning to weave big ideas and big questions into our work, as a way for our art form to have a dialogue between the past and present,' Smith said. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The 'E Pluribus Unum' programming is dispersed throughout the season, beginning with an all-American gala with music director Andris Nelsons on the podium during the season's opening weekend (Sept. 19), and concluding with John Adams's 'Harmonium' in the final program of the season, paired with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, a frequent guest whom Smith described as a 'great friend of the orchestra.' (April 30 - May 3) Advertisement However, many of the 'E Pluribus Unum' highlights are concentrated in January 2026, including concert performances of Samuel Barber's 'Vanessa' presented in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera, conducted by Nelsons with soprano Jennifer Holloway in the title role and Marshfield-grown mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as Erika (Jan. 8 & 10); an all-John Williams program, also conducted by Nelsons and featuring pianist Emanuel Ax (Jan. 22 - 25), and the Boston premiere of BSO composer chair Carlos Simon's gospel-inspired 'Good News Mass,' conducted by BSO artistic partner and youth and family concerts conductor Thomas Wilkins (Jan. 29-31). Nelsons is helming 14 different programs during the season, his twelfth as music director. His dance card includes 'Missa solemnis' (Oct. 9-11), Bernstein's 'Chichester Psalms' (Jan. 15 & 17), John Adams's Violin Concerto, featuring Augustin Hadelich (Oct. 16-18), and a shared date with 2025 Tanglewood Music Center conducting fellows Leonard Weiss and Yiran Zhao (April 3). The season's lineup of guest conductors includes Jonathon Heyward and Nodoka Okisawa, making BSO debuts; Andrey Boreyko and BSO assistant conductor Anna Handler, making planned Symphony Hall debuts; and several familiar faces including Herbert Blomstedt, Domingo Hindoyan, Thomas Adès, Susanna Mälkki, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Scheduled soloists with the BSO in the coming season include Yuja Wang, Seong-Jin Cho, Midori, Yunchan Lim, and Joshua Bell, among others. Hadelich, who made his BSO debut in 2012, performs several times in the coming season as artist in residence, offering a solo recital (Oct. 19) and chamber performances with pianist Orion Weiss (Feb. 1) and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players (Feb. 15) in addition to appearing in two programs with the orchestra. Advertisement In addition to its subscription programming, the BSO is also hosting three touring orchestras for single dates at Symphony Hall. The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra makes its Boston debut on Nov. 14; Nelsons brings the Vienna Philharmonic and soloist Lang Lang through on March 3, in a co-presentation with Celebrity Series of Boston; finally, the orchestra of Interlochen Arts Academy visits on March 15 with Cristian Măcelaru conducting a program including a new work for cello and orchestra by Wynton Marsalis, featuring Yo-Yo Ma. The Boston Pops also have several dates – most of them conducted by Keith Lockhart – dispersed throughout the season, presenting programs that will celebrate the work of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Sept. 20), Day of the Dead (Nov. 1), Lunar New Year (Feb. 21), and Irish musical traditions (March 14). 'We're finding opportunities to weave Boston Pops programming into the season broadly,' Smith said, 'anchored by Holiday Pops and Spring Pops.' The season's opening festivities commence on Sept. 17 with a free Concert for the City, featuring the BSO, Pops, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus with Nelsons, Lockhart, and Wilkins sharing the podium. As has become custom, a plethora of Boston-based groups will be offering pre-concert performances around Symphony Hall. Subscriptions are available now, with single tickets on sale July 31. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Begins September. 617-266-1200, A.Z. Madonna can be reached at
USA Today
31-01-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USA, Canada, Finland, Sweden jerseys unveiled for 4 Nations Face-Off
The 4 Nations Face-Off rosters were announced in December, the captains were named this week and now the tournament organizers have revealed what the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden will wear in February. The jerseys, designed by Fanatics with input from the NHL and NHL Players' Association, were unveiled on Friday. Unlike NHL games, in which a player wears a different color jersey depending on whether the team is home or away, each country will wear the same jersey for each game. The best-on-best international tournament will be held from Feb. 12-20 at Montreal's Bell Centre and Boston's TD Garden. Here's a closer look at the jerseys: USA 4 Nations Face-Off jersey Drawing inspiration from the U.S. flag, the jersey has navy blue as the primary color, with red and white striping on the sleeves and the base. Each shoulder has a white star patch, similar to what was worn during the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Lake Placid Olympics. There are 13 subtle stripes on the chest and back to represent to original 13 colonies. 'E Pluribus Unum' from The Great Seal of the United States is on the jersey's sleeves. Canada 4 Nations Face-Off jersey Canada's jersey is red with maple white colored accents. Its front crest has a 13-point maple leaf, inspired by the first representation of what would become the Canadian flag. An arced Canada wordmark sits inside the leaf, and the sleeves feature debossed maple leaf vines. Finland 4 Nations Face-Off jersey This is the only white jersey at the tournament, which represents the "country's vast winter landscape." The Suomi on the front is the Finnish word for Finland. There's a modern take on the national coat of arms, a crowned lion set against the Finnish sky. Convallaria Majalis, the country's national flower, is debossed on the sleeves and on the interior neckline. Sweden 4 Nations Face-Off jersey The yellow and blue jersey has a modern redesign of the Tre Kronor (three crowns), which is historically worn by the nation's hockey teams in international competitions. A stripe design on the jersey's sleeves looks like the Swedish flag.
