The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops will team up for the first time ever for an open-air concert in Franklin Park on Sun., Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. This performance will mark the BSO’s first ever visit to Boston’s largest park; it will be the first Pops’ show at the venue since 2000.

The program will be divided into two halves. In the first half, The Boston Pops will honor legendary composer John Williams. The 85-year-old composer and Boston Pops Laureate Conductor is the genius behind some of the most beloved and well-known film scores of the past sixty years.

Current conductor Keith Lockhart will lead the Pops in a selection of works from some of Williams’s most popular scores, including music from Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Star Wars.

The tribute to Williams will be followed by a second-half performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which will play Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Arturo Marquez’s Danzon No. 2, and “Aspiration,” the fourth movement of William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1. The program will close with the fourth movement of Mahler’s first symphony.

The BSO will host a pre-concert festival in Franklin Park, featuring musical demonstrations, art exhibits, crafts, and other activities for kids and families.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh took official note of the historical significance of the event, urging Bostonians to take advantage of the opportunity. “It is an incredibly special and historic occasion to offer the residents of Boston the opportunity to hear the world-renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops perform at Franklin Park,” he said. “This free concert and festival will be a memorable celebration featuring the very best of our talent in Boston, and I encourage people from every corner of the city to attend this October.”

Keith Lockhart invoked the park’s namesake in his endorsement of the concert: “Benjamin Franklin, for whom Franklin Park is named, said, ‘Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.’ We hope to immerse our friends and neighbors of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Dorchester, and the greater Boston area in the music of the BSO and Boston Pops, and to create a memorable experience that will inspire them for many years to come.”