Lenox — In a normal Tanglewood season, encores are brief and ephemeral. By summer’s end, they are fond memories. In 2020, however, they are considerably more enduring and a great deal more interesting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has established “Encore BSO Recitals,” a weekly series of online performances featuring 50 musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine videos to be released at bso.org every Thursday at noon starting Sept.17 and running through Nov. 12.
“Encore BSO Recitals” reprise programming initially recorded and released this past summer as part of the Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival. The individual players, having programmed the series according to their own musical proclivities, have recorded new introductions and will participate in live question-and-answer events for select programs. Their programs feature contemporary composers of color and women composers, including Valerie Coleman, Paquito D’Rivera, Kevin Day, Marti Epstein, Gabriela Lena Frank, Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes, James Lee III, Allison Loggins-Hull, Charles Overton and Daniel Bernard Roumain.
Click here for a program listing of Encore BSO Recitals.
Click here to see a clip of violinist Lucia Lin and cellist Owen Young performing an excerpt from Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello.
“Encore BSO Recitals” are a part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s continuing series of online performances created in response to the live performance hiatus imposed by regulations around the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing health crisis.
