BSO’s Jonathon Heyward will focus on ‘programming that is relevant to the community’ in coming season

For Jonathon Heyward, the new music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the key word for success is community. At a news conference last week at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Heyward addressed a small group of news media about what can be expected of his first season in the driver’s seat. A priority of that, he said, will be a focus on “programming that is relevant to the community,” both in “having familiar faces in the community on our stages” as well as “pre- and post-concert experiences that relate to the community.