Performer: Alec Baldwin

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the Boston Symphony presents a program dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, including the belated world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony no. 15. 

So begins the fifth year of Alan Gilbert’s quest to make the New York Philharmonic the very model of a modern symphony orchestra: a concert in which the music director spent the vast majority of this time seated stock still; in which the luckier of the musicians spent most of their hours looking up at a big screen; and in which the audience spent most of their evening entranced by visuals and jump