Article: CARNEGIE HALL PLANS BIG CENTENNIAL BASH

For its centennial in 1991, New York's fabled Carnegie Hall is going all out. As part of the festivities, it will spend almost $500,000 to commission new music for old friends to play during the gala season of 1990-1991. Ten ensembles and performers have been matched to 10 composers of their own choosing. Some commissions will do double duty, also serving as anniversary music elsewhere.

The 107-year-old Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of Carnegie's oldest friends. The first in a long line of visiting orchestras, the BSO gave its initial Carnegie Hall concert in November 1893 and has performed there almost every season since. So of course the BSO will be among the 100 American and ...

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