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Beginning the program was J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Tessa Lark and flutist Alex Sopp, both ...

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In reality, as was later revealed, the composer had been politely pressed by the orchestra’s director to pull the work. Shostakovich spent years after its disappearance downplaying and ...

As for the Shostakovich, it is one of the composer’s strangest symphonies. It opens with an immense slow movement — so slow as to border on stasis — followed by a fast scherzo and an even ...