Boston Symphony Orchestra

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  • Address
    301 Massachusetts Ave, Back Bay
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  • Phone
    266 1200
  • Website
  • Transport
    underground rail: Symphony

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Lonely Planet review

Conductor James Levine leads a masterful orchestra through Schoenberg, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich with great finesse. Though occasionally playing outdoors at the Hatch Schell on the Esplanade, their usual home, the breathtaking Symphony Hall, is a beauty with an ornamental high relief ceiling where most in the crowd will be dressed in their finest.

It was designed in 1861 with the help of a Harvard physicist who pledged (and succeeded) to make the building acoustically perfect. Occasionally, you can get tickets to rehearsals which are cheaper than full-fledged shows.