Music director James Levine will open the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2009-10 season on Sept. 23 with the premiere of John Williams's "On Willows and Birches," written as a tribute to the BSO's retiring harpist Ann Hobson Pilot. He will also lead a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies as well as premieres by Peter Lieberson, John Harbison, and Elliott Carter. Bernard
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