Thanks to an anonymous donor, $20 tickets are available during the Boston Symphony Orchestra season for patrons under 40 years of age. Tickets are available on a first-come, first served basis on both the orchestra and balcony levels. There is a limit to one pair of tickets per performance, but you may choose as many dates as you like! To purchase $20 under 40 tickets please call SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, or visit the Symphony Hall Box Office.

This weeks classical music CD giveaway is “”The Soviet Experience by Dmitri Shoastakovich””. Here is what you need to do to win:

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3. That’s it! Each week we will randomly choose one Friend. We’ll message you for your mailing address and send you that week’s CD. You have seven days to claim your prize.

We will run this contest for multiple weeks so become our Friend now and be elgible to win each week. If you need more information , please contact us at info@classicalmusicamerica.com. You must live in the U.S. Thanks for listening!

The Boston Symphony Orchestra itself will be showcased on the first half of the BSO program of January 19-24, originally to have been conducted by Riccardo Chailly, when it performs-without a conductor-music for brass, for winds, and for strings: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and the “Procession du Vendredi-saint” (”Good Friday Procession”) from French composer Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares liturgiques for brass and percussion; Richard Strauss’s Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7, for winds; and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C for Strings, Op. 48. Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero will then step in for Riccardo Chailly on the second half of the program to lead Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which was originally scheduled to conclude these concerts. The works on the first half of the program will be introduced by members of the BSO’s brass, wind, and string sections.