Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson. Symphony Hall has been its home since 1900, and Tanglewood in the Berkshires its summer base. Serge Koussevitzky led it from 1924 to 1949 and Seiji Ozawa from 1973 to 2002. Under Ozawa it recorded American works for New World Records, among them Roger Sessions's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and music by Olly Wilson and John Harbison.
