National Bank's sponsorship, intended to help make the OSM's performances available to a wider audience, totals C$1 million over the next three seasons.
The Montreal Symphony's 2006-07 season, the first under incoming music director Kent Nagano, opens on September 6 with a performance of Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, Galina Ustvolskaya's Symphony No. 4 ("Prayer") and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The concert is long since sold out.