Join us one hour prior to the concert for a casual and engaging discussion with composer Julia Wolfe and assistant conductor François López-Ferrer.

Grab a bite at the food trucks in front of Music Hall on Elm Street before the Friday concert.

Following these performances, join other music lovers at the Grand Foyer bar in the center of the lobby. 

“I’ve always been attracted by the manic side of [composer Robert Schumann], his very individual ‘touch’; and I’ve always loved surrendering myself in his music,” says de la Salle.

Timo Andres' music is "the kind of sprawling, brazen work that a young composer should write" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker). Get to know Andres, co-creator of the first CSO Proof: American Perspective.

Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka envelopes us in the tragic tale of a magical street performer and his puppets. Stravinsky’s tale contains street dancing, raw human emotions, waltzes, magic and, finally, the death of the puppet Pétrouchka. In 1925 Stravinsky chose to conduct the original version of his own Pétrouchka for his CSO conducting debut.

May Festival Music Director Laureate James Conlon leads a lavishly expressive program this Thanksgiving weekend.

A fallen angel makes three sacred attempts at the gates of heaven.

Artist-in-residence Guy Braunstein returns to pull music from thin air.