Music in 3D #9: Beethoven’s 9th

The Program Could a season built on the Ninth Symphonies of great composers end any other way than with the greatest of them all, the Choral Symphony in D minor of Ludwig van Beethoven? The BSO intends to make that case with help from area choruses and soloists in our...

Great Music!

Come along with the BSO as we initiate our 2022-23 season by paying tribute to four “Ninth” symphonies of various composers. In our first concert, a sprightly opera overture from the Bohemian tradition leads us to music for Two Trumpets and Orchestra...

From the New World

In this concert, Minnesota composer Shelley Hanson paints a sonic portrait of a walk through time and space, with her piece dedicated to the people of New York City, Groove. After we hear Ruth Conry, winner of this year’s MNSOTA Mary West Solo Competition,...

Soul and Irony

The BSO is pleased to present the Minnesota premiere performance of Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, a beautiful and powerful piece. Our own Michael Sutton will rise from his seat as concertmaster to lead the BSO strings in a violin solo by Franz Schubert....