Boston Symphony Orchestra trombonist (and later personnel manager) Bill Moyer says he remembers when Hobson Pilot joined the BSO.

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Born in Russia, he conducted the State Symphony Orchestra in Petrograd before moving to the U.S. to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Born in Russia, he conducted the State Symphony Orchestra in Petrograd before moving to the United States to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Boyar calls it a groundbreaking new work, "Double Concerto for Violin and Percussion" by Harold Farberman, a former percussionist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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In concert, Racette has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, and she recorded Zemlinsky's Der Traumgorge with James Conlon and the Cologne Philharmonic.

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Mazzio's included a law degree from Georgetown University, a partner position at white-shoe firm Brown Rudnick in Boston and board-memberships at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the National Rowing Foundation.

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In September 1956, the Boston Symphony was the first major U.S. orchestra to visit the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and in the fall of 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra made an unprecedented trip to China.

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