Principal double-bass Edwin Barker will leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra next week after 48 years in the seat.
His parting performance will be Serge Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto this Friday at Tanglewood. Koussevitsky, Boston’s formative conductor, started life in Russia as a double-bass virtuoso who married the daughter of a tea magnate (which must have gone down well in Boston).
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