“That’s SO Last Century”

The First Concert of the BSO’s 41st Season The 20th century was an era of extremes. American music held a mirror to world events, giving us a new way of viewing that historic time. Our concert on October 2nd features a range of American music composed between 1928 and 1959. George Gershwin’s American in Paris reflects the excitement and awe felt by an American tourist seeing Paris for the first time.  Gershwin himself said this piece is filled with “vivacity and bubbling...