A Day at the Symphony

It’s the 2001 Space Odyssey opener, dummy, at Symphony Hall on Friday, 25 October 2024.

An early afternoon program, including a Liszt piano concerto with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and a premiere of Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire”

You didn’t have to be gray-haired and long since retired to attend, but it didn’t hurt.

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Nov 1

Unleashed from the dungeon of the American Genre Film Archive, THE AGFA HORROR TRAILER SHOW is a senses-shattering compilation of horror & cult thrills. Double feature!

Ruby Grove / The Plus Ones / Marilyn Eden

Nov 4

Funky trip hoppers Ruby Grove are secretly plotting a fantasy-themed rock opera. Prove me wrong. With The Plus One and Marilyn Eden.

Nov 5

The Presidential Erection: Dance & Drag Party, Pop Up Arcade, and Bars Over Bars will help you get through election night anxiety.

Nov 13

The story of women making the Boston music scene. In-house appearance and Q&A (and maybe a uke performance?) with Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls).

The Modern Faces / Perfectly Lethal / Whyte Lipstick / Luddites

Nov 13

The Modern Faces, pop punk powurrr. With Perfectly Lethal, Whyte Lipstick, Luddites.

Linnea’s Garden / The Ghouls / Catwolf / Goodkarma

Nov 14

Linnea's Garden EP release, w/The Ghouls, Catwolf, and Goodkarma at Deep Cuts.

Nov 15

The 4th Wall celebrates its 1-year anniversary with Trash Sun, Lady Pills, Petal Dance, and the Dreamtoday at the Capitol Theater.

Nov 22

Hard rocking Cortez has a real metal ripper with their new album Thieves and Charlatans. With Worshipper and Curse the Son.

Nov 30

Punk in broad daylight. Get there early for WORM, Presidential Disgrace, Screw Cart, and Neponset Monastary.

Dec 14

Biribá Union w/ Balla Kouyaté at the Regent Theatre.

Dec 26

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

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Hannah Kendall is a British composer, based in New York, who arrived in Boston to premiere her new work “O flower of fire.” The piece pairs well with edge-of-modernity classics of the western canon, using a full orchestra with more or less conventional instrumentation besides combs, which were played like mouth harps.

Shout out to Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s jacket, which shined and sparkled like the belly of a rainbow trout fished fresh from the river. Or sea? We may never know where rainbow trouts are from.

Yes, yes, yes. You know this short theme from its inclusion in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey. What you didn’t know is that, after the theme runs its course in about two minutes, the composition keeps on trucking for another 33 minutes. Another 33 glorious minutes. And the crowd went wild.