ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Profound musicianship, power, command, free spirit, warmth, and poetry.
These are the qualities required to perform Bartok’s ultimate test of virtuosity, the Concerto for Orchestra.

Charles Griffes White Peacock

• The White Peacock was composed in 1915 for solo piano as part of the piano suite Four Roman Sketches. This was later orchestrated by Griffes for ballet.
• In the orchestral score to the ballet, Charles Griffes writes “It pictures a wonderful garden filled with gorgeous colour, where a white peacock moves about slowly, as the soul, as the breath of all this beauty.”

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1

• Renowned young pianist Anna Fedorova returns to play with the BPYO once again. Gramophone Magazine praises her“unfailingly sensitive, poetic and tasteful, the phrases flexibly shaped even when the technical going gets tough (…) never forces her tone and never loses her cool” Listen to her performance of Piano Concerto No. 1 on YouTube.
• Interesting fact, Tchaikovsky’s popular Piano Concerto made its debut in Boston on October 25, 1875 with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

• Bartok’s extremely well-known and popular composition was written in 1943.  It was premiered on December 1st, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra  conducted by Serge Koussevitzky.

INFORMATION FOR TICKET BUYERS

• All Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra concerts make use of a stage extension. This makes row E the first row directly in front of the stage. View Symphony Hall Seat Map to see where the extension overlaps and where any viewer obstructions are located before you choose your seats.
• If you are choosing to have your tickets emailed to you, your tickets are print-at-home and not digital or e-tickets. This means that you will receive an email with PDF attachments. One PDF per ticket that you purchased. You must print your PDF ticket(s) out and bring them with you to the concert. Print-at-home tickets are a convenience for ticket buyers so that they may receive their tickets right away.
• View our Ticket Policies page for further information.