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The eminent American-born Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Symphony Hall to lead two symphonic staples. Though it lacks a specific program, Sibelius's Fourth Symphony draws on the same Finnish heritage that informed his symphonic poems and uses a similarly evocative approach to the orchestra. The symphony was finished and premiered in 1911. Though composed in 1842, Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony was inspired by a trip to Scotland he had made more than a decade earlier, which had previously borne fruit in his equally Romantic Hebrides Overture.