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The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrated the opening of its 2016 Tanglewood season tonight, Friday, July 8 with an Opening Night at Tanglewood program featuring violinist Joshua Bell—in his 28th consecutive summer at Tanglewood since his debut here in 1989—as soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Canadian conductor Jacques Lacombe opened the program with Ravel’s raucous and colorfully Spanish-flavored Alborada del gracioso, and closed it with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. A decadent Gala fundraiser held before the event raised $475,000 with 410 guests in attendance including Event Co-Chairs Gregory Bulger and Richard Dix, and Lina Plantilla and Eduardo Plantilla, as well as Chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees Bill Achtmeyer and Alli Achtmeyer, President of the BSO Board of Trustees Paul Buttenwieser and Katie Buttenwieser, BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe, BSO Overseer Jill Horner with her husband the star cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and other major philanthropists including BSO Trustee Joyce Linde. The evening’s guest artists Conductor Jacques Lacombe and violinist Joshua Bell also attended a post-concert reception for the Gala guests.
Gala Photos (Michael Blanchard)
