“Despite cancelling the remainder of its 2019-20 season and the entirety of the 2020 Boston Pops season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is looking toward the future,” writes Kevin Slane in Thursday’s (4/30) Boston.com. “The BSO announced its 2020-21 season lineup on Thursday, highlighted by a 250th anniversary celebration of Beethoven’s symphonies, Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Holst’s The Planets, and many other landmark orchestral works. In a video that accompanied the announcement, BSO music director Andris Nelsons [said], ‘With the world going through so much upheaval around the coronavirus, I find it absolutely essential to look toward the future when we will all gather again as a community around the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s magnificent music-making …’ The 2020-21 season, which runs from Sept. 16 through May 1, will kick off with two weeks of all-Beethoven programming … According to a press release, the BSO will offer complimentary concert nights and a season-long 50 percent ticket discount offer in honor of Greater Boston’s essential workers during the COVID-19 crisis…. For its the summer programs and the 2020-21 season, the BSO said it will follow recommendations of public health officials as to whether performances can be held safely.”
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