April Concert

Sunday, April 12, 2026​

3:00 PM​

Gasson 100 at Boston College​​​

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Repertoire:

• Gioachino Rossini, Overture from William Tell

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major, first movement

  • Patrick Yulin Liu ‘29, Winner of the 2025 BCSO Concerto-Aria Competition

• Ethan Behr ‘25, Watershed for String Orchestra

• Gustav Holst, “Jupiter” from The Planets
  John Williams, Theme from Jurassic Park

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Program Theme/Description: Human Folly

• "Life finds a way." This famous line from the 1993 film Jurassic Park points to the futility of human control in the face of nature, and urges humility over hubris when interacting with forces greater than ourselves. The Boston College Symphony Orchestra spring concert probes this tension between humility and hubris, exploring musical subjects from climate change to the cosmos to the Cretaceous Period. The concert features Rossini's heroic William Tell Overture, Mozart's operatic Clarinet Concerto in A major (Patrick Yulin Liu '29, clarinet soloist and winner of the 2025 Concerto-Aria Competition), "Jupiter" from Holst's The Planets, and Theme from Jurassic Park by John Williams. The program's emotional center is a world premiere performance of Watershed, a piece written for string orchestra by Boston College alumnus Ethan Behr '25, which chronicles the cataclysmic flooding in Vermont and offers music as a response for "addressing the climate crisis, fostering empathy, and inspiring action."

• This program is part of the BCSO project to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States’ Declaration of Independence by performing American music on every concert program in the year 2026.