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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra, based at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. The orchestra was founded in 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson. It went on to have several notable conductors, including Arthur Nikisch from 1889 to 1893, and Pierre Monteux from 1919 to 1924 who gave the orchestra a reputation for a French sound which persists to some degree even till to-date.

Offshoots of BSO
Boston Pops Orchestra An offshoot of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the Boston Pops Orchestra, founded in 1885, which plays lighter, more popular classics, andshow tunes.

Arthur Fiedler was the conductor who did the most to increase the fame of the Boston Pops, over his tenure from 1930 to 1979. Film composer John Williams succeeded Fiedler as the conductor of the Pops from 1980 to 1993. Since 1995, the conductor of the Boston Pops is Keith Lockhart.

Boston Symphony Chamber Players
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were launched in 1964. They are still the only chamber ensemble composed of principal players from an American symphony orchestra. In addition to regular performances in Boston and Tanglewood, they have performed throughout the United States and the Europe. They have also recorded for RCA Victor, DG, Phillips, and Nonesuch.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Performing with the BSO and Boston Pops for major choral works is the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Organized in 1970 by its founding director, John Oliver, the Chorus comprises 250 volunteer singers. Before the creation of the Tanglewood Chorus, and for some time after, the BSO frequently employed the New England Conservatory Chorus conducted by Lorna Cooke DeVaron, Chorus Pro Musica, Harvard Glee Cluband Radcliffe Choral Society.

The BSO also benefits from its close association with the New England Conservatory, located just one block from Symphony Hall with several graduates now occupying BSO musician seats.Violin virtuoso Willy Hess was concertmaster from 1904 to 1910. The current concertmaster is Malcolm Lowe.

The Mentors
Directorship of Koussevitzky The orchestra's reputation increased mentor most prominently during the music directorship of Serge Koussevitzky. Under Koussevitzky, the orchestra gave regular radio broadcasts and established its summer home at Tanglewood, where Koussevitzky founded the Berkshire Music Center which is now the Tanglewood Music Center.

Various new pieces were commissioned from prominent composers, including theSymphony No. 4 of Sergei Prokofiev and the Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky. They also gave the premiere of B?la Bart?k's Concerto for Orchestra, which had been commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation at the instigation of Fritz Reiner and Joseph Szigeti.

The director also started a tradition that was to be continued by the orchestra with commissions. On occasions, they have commissioned works from various other composers, such as John Corigliano's Symphony No. 2 for the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall.

Live Radio Broadcasts
Those network radio broadcasts ran from 1926 through 1951, and again from 1954 through 1956; the orchestra continues to make regular live radio broadcasts to the present day. The Boston Symphony was closely involved with the creation of WGBH Radio as an outlet for its concerts.

James Levine
In 2004, James Levine became the first American-born music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine has received critical praise for revitalizing the quality and repertoire since the beginning of his tenure, including championing contemporary composers.

To be able to fund the more challenging and expensive of Levine's musical projects with the orchestra, the orchestra has established an Artistic Initiative Fund of about US$40 million. This is in addition to the current endowment of the orchestra, which is the largest of any American orchestra at about US$300 million.

Recordings
First Acoustical Recording The Boston Symphony made its first acoustical recordings in 1917 in Camden, New Jersey for the Victor Talking Machine Company with Karl Muck. Among the first discs recorded was the finale to Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony. Typical of acoustical recordings, the musicians had to crowd around a large horn that transferred the sounds to a recording machine.

It was under Serge Koussevitsky that the orchestra made its first electrical recordings, also for Victor, in the late 1920s. Using a single microphone for a process Victor called Orthophonic, the first recordings included Ravel's Bolero.

Recording sessions took place in Symphony Hall. Koussevitsky's final recording with the Boston Symphony was a high fidelity version of Sibelius' second symphony, recorded in 1949 and released on LP.

First Stereo Recording
In February 1954, RCA Victor began recording the orchestra in stereo, under the direction of Charles Munch. RCA continued to record Munch and the orchestra through 1962, his final year as music director in Boston. During M?nch's tenure, Pierre Monteux made a series or records with the BSO for RCA Victor.

Erich Leinsdorf, who had already made numerous recordings for RCA, continued his association with the company during his seven years in Boston. These included a critically-acclaimed performance of Brahms' German Requiem.

As a guest conductor in the 1960s, Seiji Ozawa made several recordings with the BSO for RCA Victor. Seiji Ozawa continued the BSO relationship with DG while making several other releases for New World. Over the course of Ozawa's tenure, the BSO diversified its relationships making recordings under Ozawa with CBS, EMI, Philips Records, RCA, and TELARC.

Recordings with Sir Colin Davis
The BSO also recorded for Philips under its principal guest conductor, Sir Colin Davis. Leonard Bernstein made records for both Columbia and DG. It also appeared on Decca with Vladimir Ashkenazy, with Charles Dutoit and Andre Previn for DG, and on Phillips and Sony with Bernard Haitink. James Levine has recorded for Nonesuch.

BSO and the Films
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has also done recording for film scores on occasion. Films such as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, (both composed and conducted by John Williams) were recorded by the Orchestra at Symphony Hall.

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Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the 5 orchestras in the US that are referred to as the Big Five. BSO was founded in 1881. Most of its performances are held at Boston's Symphony Hall and the Tanglewood Music Center. The first conductor of the orchestra was Georg Henschel. He used several creative orchestral seating charts. The orchestra gained extreme popularity during the music directorship of Serge Koussevitzky. About 1 million radio listeners tuned in when the orchestra were the first to perform a live concert for radio broadcast in 1926. The orchestra has also done several recordings for films. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan include some of them. Some of the most prominent musicians of this orchestra are Haldan Martinson, Steven Ansell, Jules Eskin, Edwin Barker, John Ferrillo, William Hudgins and Thomas Rolfs.

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