In short
Jotaro Nakano appears in our directory as conductor for a season of concerts with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston, including a performance at Tanglewood. The programs range from Rossini overtures and Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F to Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Beethoven's Eroica, suggesting a conductor comfortable across two centuries of orchestral repertoire.
On the podium
Across these five programs, listeners can expect a mix of orchestral showpieces, vocal works, and large symphonic statements. The season opens with Rossini's sparkling Barber of Seville overture paired with Gershwin's jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in F, then moves to a program built around evening and dream imagery, featuring Berlioz's song cycle Les Nuits d'été and Ravel's shimmering second suite from Daphnis et Chloé. A memorial-themed concert pairs Mahler's Fifth Symphony, which opens with a solitary trumpet call before building to a famous slow movement, with Brahms's more autumnal Third Symphony. The final two concerts repeat a pairing of Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto, a showcase for the horn's singing tone, with Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," a work that expanded what a symphony could be.
Written by OrchestraFinder, reviewed September 2026.