Lyric Stage Boston – Assassins


Ended Sunday, October 15, 2023
– The Lyric Stage Company of Boston presented Assassins. With the American dream out of reach, nine of the most notorious figures in our nation’s history ignite a chain of monumental nightmares.

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s tragically funny and unnerving musical peers inside the shattered minds of successful and attempted presidential assassins from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr.

Lyric Stage Assassins

Opening Night at Symphony Hall Boston


Saturday, October 7, 2023
– From Austria to America: This program began with Beethoven’s lively and festive Consecration of the House Overture, commissioned for the city of Vienna.

Austrian soloist Rudolf Buchbinder then played Mozart’s light and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23, written during the composer’s years in Vienna.

Opening Night at Symphony Hall Boston

Aaron Diehl and his trio brought to life the American master Duke Ellington’s tone poem New World A-Coming.

In closing, Carlos Simon, an Atlanta-raised composer, dived deep into his community’s history with the motley and exuberant Four Black American Dances.