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Shostakovich’s Message of Resistance with Yo-Yo Ma and the BSO

Yo-Yo Ma plays his cello outside in a forest drenched in sunshine. He pulls the bow across his cello strings and smiles up at the sky.
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma

Saturday, April 12, 2025
8:00 PM

Dmitri Shostakovich often folded messages of revolution and resistance into his music during a politically turbulent time. Yo-Yo Ma brings the specter of resistance in Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto; a prime example of the composer using music to protest an authoritarian regime. The program concludes with his Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

ALL-SHOSTAKOVICH program
Cello Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905

This concert will take place on Friday, April 11th and will be broadcast on Saturday, April 12th.