The Pines of Rome

Jonathon Heyward closes his debut season as BSO Music Director drenched in the unabashed emotions of Richard Strauss’ swan song, sung by Artist in Residence Christine Goerke. Respighi’s evergreen depictions of towering pine trees around the Eternal City anchor the timelessness of this art form, while the future comes forward in a new work commissioned from hometown hero James Lee III. In Records from a Vanishing City, Jessie Montgomery pines for the gritty, multicultural Manhattan of her youth, spent in her father’s Lower East Side rehearsal studio for rock and jazz bands. 

Artists
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano

Repertoire
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Records from a Vanishing City
STRAUSS Four Last Songs
JAMES LEE III Captivating Personas (world premiere, BSO commission)
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

Symphony Social: AfterWords with Heyward | Saturday June 15

Funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc.

The appearance of BSO Artist in Residence Christine Goerke is supported by the Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Guest Artist Fund.