BSO—Alsop Conducts Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique

BSO—Alsop Conducts Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique

Saturday, October 17, 2026
In recognition of the 25th anniversary of September 11, Marin Alsop leads a program that opens what composer John Adams called a “memory space,” in his Pulitzer Prize-winning On the Transmigration of Souls. With the searching beauty of Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Tchaikovsky’s sublime Pathétique, the music is impassioned, sincere, and ultimately alive.

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