BPYO: Harbison/Gershwin/Copland

Harbison, Remembering Gatsby

Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, Makoto Ozone, piano

Copland, Symphony No. 3

Benjamin Zander, Conductor

John Harbison, one of Boston’s musical luminaries for the fifty-odd years that he has lived here, is the composer of a large, extraordinarily varied body of work. Many of music’s highest honors have come his way—the Pulitzer Prize for music and a commission from the Metropolitan Opera (The Great Gatsby) among them. The BPYO plays his incandescent Remembering Gatsby  (Foxtrot for Orchestra) for the first time.

This will be the first time that the BPYO plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and it is going to be very special indeed! Makoto Ozone is featured on piano.

Finally the BPYO will play Copland's Symphony No. 3,