2023-2024

*BMOP commission/World Premiere

Gil Rose, conductor

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, takes on yet another daring program featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Henri Lazarof, Harold Shapero, and Yu-Hui Chang. 

Saturday, May 25, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. ET

New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA

Program is subject to change.

Ill and feverish, Boston-born writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe – his creativity and inspiration in the doldrums after his wife Virginia’s death two years prior – plans to sail to Baltimore on a “voyage of discovery.” But is a ship scheduled to depart?

Amidst shipboard phantoms, morbid melodrama, a hasty child marriage, grotesque masquerade partygoers, a profusion of alcohol, and a haunting voice singing Poe’s last complete poem, “Annabel Lee”, two things exist: Poe and his dubious literary executor, the mercurial Griswold.

*World Premiere

^East Coast Premiere

Gil Rose, conductor

Program is subject to change

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, begins its 26th season at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, October 7, 2023, at 8:00 p.m. The ambitious program celebrates three world premieres and one New England premiere all commissioned by BMOP and written during the COVID-19 pandemic.