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SaturdayOctober 5, 2019 Movies Sports News Specials Powered by

Recently, series such as
“GLOW” and, especially, “Pose”
have taken on AIDS as a plot
point. Now, a five-part minise-
ries called “Boys” is about to
dive into the subject.
It’s a promising project
that’s about to go into produc-
tion. “Boys” is created by Rus-
sell T. Davies of “Years and
Years” and “Queer as Folk,” and
it’s about a group of young gay
men in the 1980s dealing with
the epidemic. The cast includes

Neil Patrick Harris, Keeley

Hawes, Stephen Fry, and Olly

Alexander.

When he first talk about the

project a few years ago, Davies

told Variety, “I am amazed that

I haven’t written this before — I

am amazed no one has. I think

we are reaching a bit of a gen-

erational thing now where men

like me in their 50s are looking

back and realizing how shock-

ing it was.” No word yet on air

date or channel.

VALERY HACHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/FILE

Russell T. Davies will create the miniseries “Boys.”

TV CRITIC’S CORNER

BY MATTHEW GILBERT

‘Boys’ to look back on AIDS in ’80s

By Zoë Madonna

GLOBE STAFF

Sometimes one goes to the Boston

Symphony Orchestra and the program is

impeccably crafted start to finish, with

each piece clearly placed in relation to the

others. At other times, it feels more like a

variety show — here, have a short modern

piece, a concerto, and a chestnut! So it

happened this Thursday at Symphony

Hall, with Chinese pianist Yuja Wang

making her second BSO appearance this

calendar year for Shostakovich’s riotous

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor.

In earlier years, technically spectacular

Russian repertoire such as Rachmaninoff

and Prokofiev was Wang’s bread and but-

ter; with one such piece, Tchaikovsky’s Pi-

ano Concerto No. 1, she made her BSO de-

but as an 11th-hour replacement for Mar-

tha Argerich in 2007.

Thursday’s Shostakovich concerto was

not one of those. Mischievous, mercurial,

even a bit nose-thumbing, it’s a young

man’s concerto and as truly carefree as

Shostakovich ever gets outside of his film

music. (Prokofiev allegedly called it “im-

mature,” driving a wedge between the

two.) It was originally conceived as a

trumpet concerto, and the solo trumpet

plays a key role. BSO principal trumpeter

Thomas Rolfs was on point, injecting an

Ennio Morricone-esque sense of cool

swagger into elongated phrases and rising

to the blazing speed of the finale.

As for Nelsons, leading the small string

orchestra — the man didn’t just conjure

three Grammy Awards out of nowhere.

You can almost always trust him with a

Shostakovich orchestra, and Thursday’s

performance rendered the concerto’s ca-

pricious scenes in high definition.

Nothing about Wang’s performance

was understated, from the spiky but not

overly aggressive sound that seemed to

leap out of the piano to her dressed-to-slay

getup: an acid green gown that looked like

something out of “The Fifth Element,”

paired with red-bottom spike heels. How

she so deftly manipulates the pedals in

those towering stilettos may be one of the

world’s great mysteries.

She relaxed into the second move-

ment’s plainspoken waltz, adding a De-

bussy-esque watercolor wash to some pas-

sagework. But the big and bold was never

far away, and the grandest fireworks show

came at the end with Shostakovich at his

most prankish; she stormed through the

cadenza, which samples Beethoven’s

“Rage Over a Lost Penny,” and Rolfs’s

trumpet led the charge through the fan-

fares after. (Are us American listeners

primed to think of cowboys and horses

when we hear any rhythm like that? Yee-

haw!) Wang came out swinging for an en-

core with Art Tatum’s arrangement of “Tea

for Two.” Perfect.

But before that: anyone who heard the

call of the shofar earlier in the week at

Rosh Hashana events might have experi-

enced some déjà vu when the horns rang

out in James Lee III’s “Sukkot Through

Orion’s Nebula,” a cosmic dance of reli-

gious ecstasy inspired by the composer’s

Seventh-Day Adventist faith. Its rhythmic

flourishes and leaping, soaring trajectory

evoked Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Sym-

phonie,” and it’s no doubt easier to fit on a

program than that giant piece.

The second half included three selec-

tions from Smetana’s “Má Vlast,” includ-

ing the famous “The Moldau,” a first-class

earworm and maybe the most picturesque

nature piece anywhere in the repertoire.

The woodwinds ran into some choppy wa-

ters as they set off, but all that vanished in

the moonlit scene, when flutes eddying

under the shimmer off strings gave the

sound gorgeous depth. The arcadian “Bo-

hemian Woods and Fields” with its plod-

ding polka wasn’t too memorable, but the

orchestra hit its stride again with the mar-

tial “Blaník.”

Nelsons returns at the end of this

month with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in

tow. In the meantime, the next three

weeks of guest conductors, including the

brilliant Susanna Malkki, promise some

interesting fare.

Zoë Madonna can be reached at

[email protected]. Follow her on

Twitter @knitandlisten. Madonna’s work

is supported by the Rubin Institute for

Music Criticism, San Francisco

Conservatory of Music, and Ann and

Gordon Getty Foundation.

Pianist Yuja Wang dazzles with

Shostakovich concerto at BSO

MUSIC REVIEW

BOSTONSYMPHONYORCHESTRA

At Symphony Hall, Thursday. Repeats

Saturday. 888-266-1200,

http://www.bso.org

HILARY SCOTT

Conductor Andris Nelsons (center),

principal trumpeter Thomas Rolfs,

and pianist Yuja Wang after the

performance Shostakovich’s Piano

Concerto No. 1 on Thursday.