The solemn, shimmering haze of string chords and delicate chimes that opens the symphony reappears throughout the three movements.
Shostakovich opened his symphony with a setting of that text, using additional poems by Mr. Yevtushenko in the remaining four movements.
Mr. Dorfman and Mr. Froot are both very funny, and their evening of three duets, which opened at Symphony Space on Thursday night, has a brilliant, Chaplinesque physical timing and fast-talking drollery that perfectly evokes the bonds and barriers between men.
Following in her father's footsteps, Ms. Amiel Burns opened the Symphony Cafe in 1988 on Eighth Avenue at 56th Street, which displayed items from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, including a top hat given to Fred Astaire by Cole Porter, Jimmy Durante's fedora, the ruby slippers Judy Garland had made for the songwriter Harold Arlen and one of Elvis Presley's guitar picks.
The opening film, "Kinshasa Symphony," is the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo's only symphony orchestra.
At the New Haven Symphony, Mozart is the common thread in the subscription series, with his "Jupiter" Symphony opening the first program, at 7 30 p.m. Sept. 25 in Woolsey Hall; the Oboe Concerto (played by Olav Van Hezewijk) providing the centerpiece of the Oct. 23 concert.
Mr. Dudamel's performance of Mahler's First Symphony on opening night was telling.
The violinist Vladimir Spivakov, who founded this energetic chamber orchestra in 1979, conducted, opening with Boccherini's Symphony No. 4 ("La Casa del Diavolo," or "The House of the Devil").
But on Wednesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, Mr. Davis put those words into practice by drawing organic and stunningly fresh accounts of two familiar Sibelius works from the empowered players of the London Symphony Orchestra, opening Lincoln Center's Great Performers season.
In the symphony, the opening movement's heroic tensions were vividly recreated, but Chailly continued to maintain an unobtrusive sense of momentum throughout the gentler middle movements; only in the finale would keener articulation of the music's vehemence have been welcome.
