Gustavo Dudamel opens the Orchestra’s subscription season.

Prokofiev’s lavishly orchestrated Symphony No. 5 — which marked Gustavo’s Philharmonic debut — glorifies the grandeur of the human spirit. The concert opens with John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, co-commissioned by the Philharmonic, the haunting reflection on the lives lost and changed by the September 11 attacks, which won a Pulitzer Prize and three Grammy Awards. Zosha Di Castri's Invisible House, inspired by the composer's Ukrainian heritage through folk song melodies, poems by Ilya Kaminsky, and her own great-grandfather’s life, demonstrates art's essential value in troubled times.