Boston bass retires with nod to Koussevitzky
OrchestrasPrincipal double-bass Edwin Barker will leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the end of the season after 48 years in the seat.
His parting Tanglewood performance will be Serge Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto this Friday. Koussevitzky, Boston’s formative conductor, started life in Russia as a double-bass virtuoso who married the daughter of a tea magnate (which must have gone down well in Boston).
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